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...Classrooms. "A third place is in the classrooms. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. In many places classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. We must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty...
Monocle's near-total dependence on philanthropy deters neither Editor Navasky nor his underpaid editorial staff of four. "We're only losing money according to schedule," said Navasky cheerfully last week. "Some people say contemporary life is too grim to satirize. Others say it is too absurd to satirize. I say it is too grim and absurd...
...unsold in warehouses -for instance, synthetic fur coats, which, complained one speaker, "are so heavy that only well-trained athletes can wear them." Only about 30% of the workers in the industry are engaged in production, while the rest are occupied with maintenance or bureaucratic tasks. Moreover, workers are underpaid and receive only a fraction of the prescribed incentive bonuses...
...members-Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela-and controls 90% of the world's oil exports. "Oil is the only resource that God gave us," says OPEC's secretary-general, Fuad Rouhani, 56. "We are not so much underdeveloped nations as we are underpaid nations." Having rebuffed the oil industry's big eight (five of which are U.S. companies), OPEC plans a meeting in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh later this month to decide what is next...
...nation's police forces are critically undermanned (authorized strength: 82,313), sadly underpaid (sergeant's pay averages $3,000 a year) and, in many critics' eyes, undereducated. In recent years, police recruits have included not a single university graduate; only about 10% of all new bobbies have the equivalent of a high school diploma. British criminals, by contrast, are becoming more imaginative and technically proficient every year. As for Scotland Yard, even its staunchest admirers admit that the legend tends to overshadow performance. Of a record number of crimes reported in London last year, fewer than...