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Sometimes an interview can be an exercise in, well, exercise. When TIME Correspondent Janice Simpson called Joe Clark, the controversial New Jersey high school principal, and asked him to sound off for this week's cover story on school discipline, Clark invited her to accompany him on his rounds. Off they went at breakneck speed, he with his infamous bullhorn in hand, she with her notebook. Clark strode swiftly along the corridors, swooping down to pick up stray scraps of paper and barking orders at his staff. When Clark finally sat down to talk, he remained hyperactive, bouncing...
...Simpson knows the problems of inner-city schools firsthand, having grown up in New York City's Harlem. Her public-school teachers were "tough and demanding," she recalls, and steered her to academic success. She was then spotted by "A Better Chance," a privately funded program that selects what she describes as "poor but promising" students for private schools. She attended the Waynflete School in Portland, Me., then enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College...
...decision will save the Government nearly $4 billion in additional tests and drilling. "We need to get on with this," said Johnston. Most members of Congress were happy to choose a home for nuclear waste anywhere but in their own backyard. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming summed up the thoughts of doubters. "Why is it," he asked, "that when the facility must isolate waste for tens of thousands of years, we cannot take the time to do it right...
...Butterfly: 1. H, Imredy 1:52.41; 2. H, Peltier 1:53.57; 3. H, Bird 1:53.75; 4. A, Dikeman 1:55.44; 5. A, Redd 1:56.42; 6. H, Hume 1:58.78; 7. A, Simpson 1:59.22, 8. A, McIntosh...
...after a year of intensive exercise and fastidious dieting, he is down to a sleek 155 lbs. Even better, he has trimmed his body fat to 10%. And he is intent on lowering it still further. Says Simpson, who scrupulously checks his body-fat percentage every six weeks: "This is a life change...