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Watching the economy of Veracruz collapse in 1999, the family of Maria Isabel Prado saw at least one surefire business opportunity. They leased, one after another, a series of aging, second-class buses--reclining seats, no rest rooms--to run people 1,400 miles north to Ciudad Juarez once a week. Since then, seven other bus companies have started up in Veracruz, doing the same thing. Says Prado, 32: "There's no shortage of people who want to leave...
...plans to divert the country's largest river, the Ebro, to supply water to the southeast. Marcelino Iglesias, president of the regional government in northeastern Aragón, through which the Ebro flows, has denounced the plan as "aiming at an absolutely unsustainable model of development ... while consolidating a second-class Spain in the interior...
...kids take them; better teachers; changes in study habits; and above all else, a new burst of self-confidence. We've got to believe that even at their most bigoted, whites never came up with a test blacks couldn't ace, including the SAT. We've got to make second-class scholarship--and low test scores--as intolerable to us as second-class citizenship used...
...kids take them; better teachers; changes in study habits; and above all else, a new burst of self-confidence. We've got to believe that even at their most bigoted, whites never came up with a test blacks couldn't ace, including the SAT. We've got to make second-class scholarship - and low test scores - as intolerable to us as second-class citizenship used...
Thanks to her refusal to accept second-class treatment at the EPA, Congress will soon debate the first new civil rights law of the 21st century. NOFEAR - the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2001 - would make federal agencies more accountable when they are found guilty of discriminating against their employees or trying to silence whistleblowers. It would make them more accountable by requiring them to pay the costs of discrimination and retaliation cases they lose out of their own budgets instead of a government-wide slush fund...