Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...local level, D.A.s have prosecuted at least 200 women across the U.S. on various theories of fetal abuse, according to the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, which represents many of the women. The center is currently helping defend Shannon Moss, a Georgia woman who gave birth to twins last year, one of whom died five minutes after being born. Authorities charged Moss with murder after she tested positive for methamphetamine, though an autopsy later found no traces of drugs in the child. Her case has been stalled for a year...
...nearest town--and telephone--is at Nanyuki, a 30-minute jeep drive away, on a dirt road. There, the boys experience a sort of 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...
...author of Brandon's transformation was Robert Embry, head of the Abell Foundation, which invests $5 million a year in education in Baltimore. Six years ago, Embry canvassed principals of local middle schools to see what they needed most. More computers? New after-school programs? Every principal said the same thing: Help us remove the 5% of students who are disruptive and make it almost impossible for the other 95% to learn. It's a problem familiar to schools all over the U.S., especially urban ones like those in Baltimore--underfunded, often with unwieldy classes of 30 or more students...
...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...
...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 feeling "restored...