Word: enough
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...role reversal. The local Kenyan kids--shoeless, many of them hanging out on the street corner sniffing glue--stare at the American boys' Nike high-tops and beg for money. Suddenly the students are no longer apprentice hoodlums from the slums; they're rich Americans with more than enough to eat, and bright opportunities...
...launched his program in Baltimore, Embry at first looked to build a residential school somewhere in the U.S., but the costs were so high he felt he could never reach enough students. So he instead chose a spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save...
...long ago, the Gulfport school district in Mississippi couldn't find enough substitute teachers. Principals spent half the day calling around to hire as many as 60 teachers for the district's 11 schools. Superintendent Carlos Hicks asked the local office of Kelly Services to help--and now the employment agency's temps are teaching in 23 states. Kelly screens potential teachers, trains them and provides benefits. Its subs get a premium rate, but administrators say they're worth it. One drawback: now that regular teachers know qualified substitutes can be easily found, absenteeism has increased slightly...
...considered signing up with a private teacher for another crack at lessons, but I know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those...
...reasonably close to a city, they can find buyers in these good times among rich middle-aged men like George W. Bush. They want a place in the country where they can hunt, fish, sit with their wife on the porch in the evening, and maybe run just enough cattle to qualify for an agricultural tax exemption. But the biggest reward is that being a ranch owner fulfills their belief that at heart they are country boys. They will go to the country dances on Saturday night and attend the local church on Sunday and come back to work Monday...