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Even in the inner cities, Catholic schools have been successful in attracting -- and educating -- children from poor and minority families willing to bear the cost. The sacrifice is often heavy: high school tuitions can approach $4,000. Nevertheless, minority enrollment in the Catholic system is now 23% of the total, double what it was 20 years ago. "When my son would come home from public school, all he could talk about was who was fighting whom," recalls Laura Williams, a black Baptist whose three children have attended the Academy of St. Benedict the African on Chicago's South Side...
...Orlando residents are finding that their earthly garden is being turned upside down. The last orange grove on Orange Avenue was knocked down in 1977. A tourist's only glimpse of the crop that once supported Orlando's economy is likely to be the miniature orange trees "that really bear fruit" sold in souvenir shops. In the past 20 years at least four of the city's main thoroughfares have become cluttered with fast-food joints, gift shops, motels, hotels and gas stations that mount a neon assault ($2.99 FOR MICKEY MOUSE!) on passersby. On some strips, condominiums and steak...
...modified money will contain a polyester filament imprinted with minuscule lettering and running from the top of the bill to the bottom. The thread on a $100 bill, for example, will bear the lettering USA 100. Visible only if held up to direct light, the thread cannot be duplicated by copiers, which use reflected light. The new currency will also contain microengravings around the portrait. First to be circulated will be the $100 denomination, which should appear by late summer. The bureau is starting with big bills, says spokesman Ira Polikoff, "because those are the most susceptible to counterfeiting." Next...
...peasants, then are on the run again. Always, food must be scavenged, shelter of some kind found. Eventually the war ends. Maciek has grown taller, noticed girls, had a kind of boyhood. But he is blighted. "He became an embarrassment and slowly died," writes the author. A man who bears one of the names Maciek used has replaced him, but he "has no childhood that he can bear to remember...
...central issue is who should bear the "burden of proof" when a worker complains that a company discriminates in its hiring and promotions. Until two years ago, it was up to the employer to show the "business necessity" of practices that have a "disparate impact" on minorities. Under that standard, plaintiffs were not required to prove that an employer had deliberately set out to be unfair to minorities; statistics showing that qualified minorities were underrepresented in a company's work force or had been consistently denied promotions were enough to make the case...