Word: localitis
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Relatives of the gynecologist, Dr. Larry Ford, who was a partner in a small biotech firm, had told police of the weapons cache, and police feared the canisters might contain dangerous biological or chemical compounds. A local newspaper had linked Ford to South Africa's biological-weapons program. So before police searched Ford's property, they closed a nearby elementary school and evacuated about 50 families from the neighborhood, putting them up at a local Hyatt Regency. One of the neighbors, a balding, middle-aged man loading up a van for a family ski trip, shook his head in bewilderment...
...features of the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School in Hamden, Conn., a for-profit public school with an exuberant following among its students, parents and teachers. Run by Edison Schools Inc., a company whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ, the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade facility draws students from four local districts and sports a waiting list with more than 1,000 names on it. "We're a curiosity," says principal Dale Bernardoni, who explains that everyone from student teachers to politicians has come for a visit...
...zealots, for-profit schools are fast winning support and jolting the $360 billion public school market, the last major sector of the U.S. economy to feel the lash of competition. The very notion seems heretical: public schools run by private companies that charge no tuition but operate classrooms for local school boards or independent chartering organizations using taxpayer money--some of which will go to shareholders as (gasp!) profit...
That approach certainly helped Antonetti. Before launching SoapWorks, Antonetti put an advertisement in her local penny paper that read, "Calling All Moms: Mom looking to start a company, and I need your help. If you could create your perfect cleaning solution and body-care products, what would it look like? Providing free lunch, guaranteed entertainment. Bring your kids...
...some 25 families who attend one of the six week-long programs, Heider and local naturalists lead geology and ecology hikes around the island's Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England. On participants' free half-days, Heider and staff guide them to remote places on the island. "They know all the nooks and crannies," says Marsha. "What's nice is that when you get to some of the beaches they know about, no one else is there." Each week offers a boat excursion on the ocean to observe humpback whales and a trip to the mainland...