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...nation's school systems are not being swept by the kind of wholesale changes that traditionalists feared would result from such programs as New York City's controversial "Children of the Rainbow" curriculum and Portland, Oregon's baseline essays, which aim to reduce the perceived Eurocentric bias of U.S. education. The ideological debate about multicultural education, brewing for years on college campuses, does not seem to have leached into primary and secondary schools, where math, science, geography, etc., are still regarded as important. Nonetheless, vexing but essential questions prevail: How are students who know no English to be taught? Must...
...TRADE TRIUMPH in the Americas, Bill Clinton bounded onstage at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Seattle last week, singing the glories of pan-Pacific free trade. Amity and optimism were watchwords as the U.S. President greeted leaders from 14 other APEC members, sat through bilateral meetings and swept the whole group off for a casual get- together on nearby Blake Island. There the leaders issued a vague but upbeat joint statement on their shared "economic vision" for the Asia- Pacific area. Said Clinton at a Saturday press conference: "We've agreed that the Asia-Pacific region should...
They may be insulting; they may also be true, at least as far as Carey himself is concerned. Outwardly, Carey is a zealous reformer who swept into office two years ago in the first democratic election in Teamster history and pledged to revitalize the country's most corrupt union. But the union's hard times have gotten harder; the Teamsters are trucking toward bankruptcy, membership is eroding, and Carey's alleged links to the Mob have observers wondering where his allegiance lies...
...young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a flurry of growling notes with an exciting upper-octave peal, he is swept up by a new set of ideas that carry him back to his original melody...
...there were some 250,000 violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in 1991 and 1992 alone, affecting more than 120 million people. Americans are ingesting such noxious pollutants as bacteria, viruses, lead, gasoline, radioactive gases and carcinogenic industrial compounds. "Like so many other problems that we have swept under the rug during the past decade and more," says David Ozonoff of Boston University's School of Public Health, "the national task of assuring that our drinking water is safe to drink can no longer be postponed...