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...cellos and drums handed out--little miracles amplified into a life away from drugs and pregnancy and into higher grades. At Mother Hale Academy, a public school in the Bronx that sits amid empty lots and broken glass, a fifth-grade class is playing La Bamba from photocopied sheet music with drums that are too loud and a clarinet that is too squeaky. To the audience, it's better than the Met. Last week VH1 Save the Music got recognition high and low. It won the Peabody Award for public service and received $32,000 when the returning champion...
...SHIELD--A tissue heat-sealed to a plastic sheet covers the hand to prevent unseemly blow-throughs and germ exposure...
...certainly made a difference in Marco Antonio Mamani's life. Two years ago, Mamani, 33, was a jewelry craftsman in Cuzco, "selling what I could on a plastic sheet by the central square." Then a notice for a seminar on e-commerce by the Peruvian Science Network (rcp), a nonprofit organization that has spurred the launch of more than 500 public Internet centers across the country, piqued his interest. Taking advantage of rcp's free technical assistance and low use rates, Mamani set up a site hawking his jewelry online. Today he is a cyberentrepreneur. Nearly...
With Florida's water supply and a $14 billion annual tourist business in jeopardy, the Army Corps of Engineers put forward a $7.8 billion plan in 1998 to undo many of its earlier projects and restore the slow-moving sheet of water that made the Everglades a natural wonderland. Billions more will be spent removing phosphorus from agricultural runoff, restoring habitats and modifying development plans to reduce stress on the system, but there is no guarantee that even these efforts will bring back the Everglades. The unsettling prospect that the planet's richest nation may not have the wherewithal...
...Humphreys surveys his space, with its bookshelves packed with sheet music, signs handwritten in marker and boxes-upon-boxes in the back room, the phone rings...