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About two years ago, the folks at Disney founded the town of Celebration, Fla.-a town of everyday people, in their everyday homes, living everyday lives-after it realized that it had no other use for land that it purchased as a possible extension of Disney World. From the beginning it saw Celebration as a noble social experiment, a model community for the next century. Disney contacted some of the world's leading architects to design the town. Educational experts planned a progressive school system that would largely do away with a formal curriculum and assessment of student performance through...
...brilliant, what are they? Welsh. That IS a selling point--how many Welsh indie-rock bands do you know? We know this because the title track International Velvet is a noisy thanksgiving that proclaims "Everyday I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." The other verses go, "Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y g,n" --which could be an elaboration on said religio-nationalistic gratitude, or, you know, something else altogether. Either way, the Welsh group is bent on going international, and in that velveteen, strangely alien way that European groups have of taking over...
...very excited about this program," said Administrative Director M. Jean McVeigh. "One of the goals [of the program] is to show how ethical tenets are applicable to everyday dilemmas...
...center's research takes a novel approach to treating the disease by seeking to transplant functional islet cells into patients without immunosuppressants. While these drugs prevent side effects such as rejection of the transplant, they can also seriously infringe upon the patients' everyday activities...
What's with these guys? In recent years the House Judiciary Committee has become an ideological rodeo. Its everyday agenda is heavy on such hot-button issues as late-term abortion, school prayer, gun control and affirmative action. The subject matter has done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties...