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...citizens of Harbor Springs, Mich, (pop. 1,600), like people in cities and towns all over America, were worrying about what to do with the old folks. For a time, a church basement served as a center for the area's 400 retired, sometimes ailing, senior citizens. But the place was hard for many to get to, and its facilities were limited. Harbor Springs High School, though, had room, as well as a varied curriculum. So earlier this year Community Schools Director Robert Doan made a proposition: Why not bring older people to the school? As he puts...
...course. Explains English Teacher Suzanne Johnson: "Some faculty members wondered, 'What do you do when some old guy disrupts your class?' And I know a lot of older people have had negative images of kids. They think first about drugs and booze." But this fall term Harbor Springs became one of the nation's first public high schools to try "gray integration," and the experiment has softened some of the harsh stereotypes that often divide young...
...Republican presidential nominee launched his drive for the White House, as tradition decreed, over the Labor Day weekend. In shirtsleeves, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering behind him in the heat of New York harbor, he spoke at a New Jersey rally: an unseen member of the audience was destiny...
...heat back into space than it receives from the distant sun. What is the source of this mysterious energy? Perhaps the most tantalizing question concerns Titan, Saturn's largest satellite (even bigger than Mercury) and the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere. Could it harbor organic molecules, the precursors of life...
...city tour, White emphasized that the novel (his first) and its characters are fiction. But his bitterness at the turn the paper has taken, especially the new sections, and at the end of the waterfront reporter tradition, still lingers. "Aside from the South Bronx, the decline of New York Harbor is the most important untold story in New York Cityy right now," White said over coffee at Tommy's Lunch...