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...year-long program combines high-school education and community service and is open to 17-to 24-year-old residents of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. If students complete 900 hours of community service through the program, they receive a $2,300 scholarship, redeemable for at any federally accredited educational institution or training program...
Ricky says he expects to earn both his GED and the scholarship, which he intends to use for carpenter training. He says his girlfriend will probably participate in YouthBuild next year after she has had the baby...
There is one catch, however: senior theses. For these are supposed to be an attempt at serious scholarship, and not, as they often end up being, just another class among four. Some professor once even said that most senior theses are not worth the paper they're written on. I don't doubt that this is true--which means, if nothing else, that I hope the Yenching is open during intersession...
Between 1992 and 1998, the Salt Lake committee parceled out nearly $400,000 in scholarship money and other financial aid to 13 students. Conveniently, six of the recipients were related to I.O.C. members. Salt Lake committee tax reports, however, made no mention of the scholarships. A Utah health-care group donated $28,000 in services, including cosmetic eye surgery, to the I.O.C. cause. And the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the bid panel spent some $20,000 on guns and skis that presumably went to individuals associated with the I.O.C...
...Reagan Administration, nuclear energy and the Beatles, set off on a trip around the world in search of noxious vistas and pollutive sunsets--the environmental wreckage that other travelers take pains to avoid. His clear-eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship, is one of the best environmental books in recent years. It may help save readers the trouble of living through ecological decline and fall, if enough of them figure out how and where to apply its bitter lessons...