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...Thernstrom has observed, minorities, especially those from low-income backgrounds, have entered graduate schools in large numbers only recently and are more likely to take high-paying jobs after graduation than to pursue less lucrative careers in teaching. Thus, the scramble to sign minority scholars has become a zero-sum game in which the participants compete over a tiny selection of candidates and win only by snatching each other's faculty--or worse, by lowering hiring standards...
...sewage," says Health Minister Camilo Gonzalez Posso of Colombia. "Until we attack those fundamental needs, we will always be vulnerable to tropical diseases turned plague." But according to the WHO, providing safe water and sewage treatment in Latin America could cost $50 billion over the next decade -- a staggering sum for countries that are already deeply in debt and struggling with the problems of crushing poverty...
...that sum, theatergoers get the patented English-musical mix of romance and melodrama, soliloquy and strife, all bound up in an unsurpassed spectacle. Seen through the eyes of two Vietnamese characters -- a pimp and hustler of irredeemable cynicism called the Engineer (Jonathan Pryce) and a woman of unquenchable faith and optimism called Kim (Lea Salonga) -- the narrative fuses a crude soap-opera plot with subtle satire of relations between capitalism and the Third World. Big in cast (45), emotion and physical sweep, the story ranges from the neon vice bars of Saigon and Bangkok to the red- bannered propaganda parades...
...embrace it. Proposals to raise education standards meet local opposition because they would be expensive and inconvenient. When the Pentagon tries to save billions by closing obsolete bases, hawks and doves fight to preserve them. Last year Americans spent $5 billion at movie box offices. A fraction of that sum could dramatically reduce infant mortality. It is all a matter of priorities...
...researchers from the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, sent there to soak up everyday life and find out what people are thinking in the place code-named Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths to blend into the scenery, leaving their fancy cars back in Chicago and driving pickup trucks. One agency executive was almost unmasked when a coffee-shop waitress took a good look at her and noted that her expensive...