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...these teachers are separated by thousands of miles, their methods of trying to encourage children to write spring from a common source: the Bread Loaf School of English. There, near Vermont's Middlebury College, grade school and high school teachers give up part of their vacations each summer to spend six weeks brainstorming, studying and trading experiences as they try to devise new methods of getting their pupils to write. Says Dixie Goswami, a Clemson University English professor who heads Bread Loaf's program in writing: "We have nothing against 'skill-and-drill' writing curricula, except they don't work...
Some 60 million Americans spend about $50 billion each year shopping by mail- order catalog. Until now, most of these slick advertising circulars were free. Starting later this month, however, consumers will be able to buy the publications at their local news outlets. Catalog Retail of Connecticut will send more than 200 catalogs for goods ranging from Fuller brushes to Tiffany crystal to 76,000 newsstands and other U.S. magazine retailers...
Foreign bargain hunters often pour enormous effort into their shopping. Michael Dornemann, a director of West Germany's Bertelsmann communications giant, flew to the U.S. more than 50 times over the past three years while deciding how his company should spend its $1 billion American shopping budget. Often taking the morning Concorde from Paris in order to put in a full day's work in the states, Dornemann visited more than 20 U.S. companies before choosing his recommended targets: Doubleday publishing and RCA records. The possibility of snagging both was considered so unlikely that he and his boss, Bertelsmann Head...
...communities was developed 20 years ago, not until last year did Paris acknowledge its dependence on this fraternity to bolster the mother tongue by convening the first such summit in Paris. This time around, the French left no doubt as to their commitment to the cause. Chirac pledged to spend $30 million on a host of French-language projects, twice last year's allocation. Among the ventures to be funded: a French- language theater festival to be held this year in Limoges, a TV news agency covering French-speaking lands, and the first "Francophone international athletic games," set for Morocco...
...just take some from here and put it in there?' " he recalls. "Now we are doing just that." Steven Soll, 38, a Los Angeles financial planner, is looking forward to having fat suctioned from under his double chin and reinserted to strengthen his jawline. "I could go out and spend $20,000 on a car to make myself feel better," he explains, "or I could spend $3,000 to change something that has always bothered me." An older, simpler method to smooth the skin involves the injection of protein collagen into scars and wrinkles. This procedure usually requires several treatments...