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COVER: "Eat American!" is the new motto of trend-conscious food buffs...
...Since 1981, allowing for inflation, total federal college-student support has dropped about 10%. One result is that some minority students are steering away from the elite colleges. Princeton, for example, is seeing a falloff in black enrollments, from 345 in 1980 to an estimated 316 this year, a trend that may be spreading to other select colleges. "With grant money frozen and tuitions going up," says Reginald Wilson of the American Council on Education in Washington, "black students have to pay more college costs out of their own pockets. Many now just can't afford...
...standards of Ivy League schools. Says California President David Gardner about his university system: "It's just undeniable that a lot of students who in the past would have applied to private universities are applying here because of the [cost] differential between a public and private school." If that trend continues, even the finest of the Ivys may begin to see the best and the brightest doing their sums and making new calculations about where they go. --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by Andrew Blauvelt/San Francisco and Timothy Loughran/Boston Most expensive Total cost Bennington $17,210 M.I.T. $17,030 Barnard...
...carjacking is down 28%--other violent crimes are up. Felony assault by gangsters is up 9.7%, attacks on police officers are up 35.5%, witness intimidation is up 50%. In other words, there is less drug dealing and theft, more violence for the sake of violence. "It's a disturbing trend, and there's nothing I am going to be spending more time on," says Hahn, who has discussed the problem with President Bush...
Despite the hassles, winemakers in the U.S. are warming to biodynamic methods, in part because of the growing popularity of organic farming and also, aficionados say, because the wines produced simply taste better. And Armenier is capitalizing on the trend. After leaving his family's winery--Domaine Marcoux in Châteauneuf-du-Pape--Armenier moved three years ago to Santa Rosa, Calif. He had one client. Now he has 20 and will add more to his roster in 2005. Armenier advises some impressive names: Archery Summit, Joseph Phelps, Cayuse, Grace Family Vineyards...