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...adore the food at Ece, tel: (90-212) 245 7628 - the vegetable-in-olive-oil dishes are delicious. From there, you can go down to the Spice Market and then hop onto a ferry to Uskudar to watch the sunset. Come back to the European side for dinner, at the inventive Abracadabra, tel: (90-212) 358 6087, in Arnavutkoy. Chat or dance the night away at any of the cafés in Cihangir or bars in Beyoglu. There's no sleeping in Istanbul...
...being echoed in every region of the country. Allan Bloom decried The Closing of the American Mind in his 1987 best seller, referring largely to college students. But in the two-to-six age group, American minds are rapidly dilating. So is the interest in early-childhood education -- ECE to the trade. "This is a wonderful time to be in the field," says Sara Wilford, director of the Early Childhood Center at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. "Interest in ECE has never been more intense...
Although the content and curriculum are as varied as the settings, most ECE centers adhere to guidelines set down in 1986 and revised last year by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The 60-year-old association is early-childhood's powerful lobby and accrediting body; its membership has doubled in the past decade and now numbers 77,000 professionals. Today it examines teachers and administrators, demands that early-childhood programs meet criteria of health and safety and continually reviews facilities to make sure its standards are being met. When the association outlines the future it wants...
...private sector is even more active. About 5,600 firms provide some kind of day care, and a small but growing group offers on-site or near-site ECE centers. The Lotus Child Center, situated at the company's Cambridge, Mass., headquarters, is an impressive example. The software giant employs 2,000 people, and 60 of their children are currently enrolled. Costs vary according to income. Some parents pay the going rate for private preschools, while other employees are subsidized and pay as little as $20 a week. "In the future," says program director Mary Eisenberg, "we're going...
Consumer Lag. Whatever the progress in the East, the consumer was slow to benefit. In Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded ECE...