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...chasm between the haves and have-nots increases generation after generation because of the great difference in educational opportunity. Since education is mostly paid by local taxes, the affluent neighborhoods are able to provide their students with benefits poor children cannot have. What happens to Jesse Jackson's urban canyons of despair? A poor family, living in a poor neighborhood, that sends its children to a poor school that educates them poorly and awards them worthless diplomas only creates more poverty. No wonder welfare can be a such a frustrating cycle! When America gets serious about rebuilding its cities...
...truth universally acknowledged that an infant media-distribution network in possession of a large audience must be in want of a way to cash in on it. Case in point: the World Wide Web, the interconnected computer universe that teems with affluent consumers whose only means of spending money online is to surrender their credit card to insecure networks--hardly a recipe for success...
...looks, wealth, pedigree and ease of manner exceeds that of any prince? Friends quoted in the press say Bessette is hip and determined, a natural socializer who knows how to get what she wants. But she is also a likable, kind human being, they say. She was raised in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and Bessette grew up with her mother, a school administrator who eventually was remarried to a prominent doctor. Bessette attended a Catholic high school and went on to Boston University, where she majored in elementary education...
...most insidious fishing method of all. Sustained by hoselike "hookahs" and portable air compressors, Philippine divers are hunting down big reef fish, stunning them with cyanide and hauling them to the surface alive. The practice allows traders to supply Chinese restaurants with the live fish their affluent customers covet. Meanwhile, the 330,000 lbs. of cyanide the divers dump onto living corals each year is poisoning the reefs...
...houses of worship, educational institutions, parks, restaurants and government buildings we find here. But it is to decry the decentralization of life found in suburban America, the separation of businesses from residential communities and schools; of churches and temples from the village green; of wealthy neighborhoods from those less affluent...