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Similar dress codes are in force at public inner-city schools in Baltimore, Detroit and New Haven, Conn. Encouraged by the program's success (at week's end 480 of the school's 800 students were wearing the new outfits), members of the advisory council may make uniforms mandatory in September. "Some of the girls say I'm a nerd," said smiling fifth-grader LaDonna Wright, proudly wearing her jumper and blouse, "but I say, 'I'm a radical dudette...
...great return to Dixie is driven by motives much like those that lay behind the earlier migration from the region. It is fueled largely by better- educated men and women under 40 who believe they can make a better life in the South. Explains Larry Long of the Census Bureau: "That's a profile of people who migrate for job opportunities...
Citing "serious deficiencies" in manufacturing quality, training and other areas, the FDA banned further use of the $22,000 mechanism. Symbion said last week that it will continue to sell the devices outside the U.S. American doctors have alternatives, however, since three other firms now make heart- pumping aids...
...They sure don't make it easy," remarked one of the priests interviewed by Fichter, who quotes all of his sources anonymously. The various steps took one of the candidates 6 1/2 years. And the living is not easy either. Recalled a convert who had earned $50,000 a year in the Episcopal clergy: "I went into debt and lost my credit rating" while awaiting reordination. "For the first time in our lives," said one of the priests' wives, "we knew what it means to live on the edge of poverty...
...race and crime so powerful that they overwhelmed skepticism about his tale. His fabrication raised the curtain on a drama in which the press and police, prosecutors, politicians and the public played out their parts as though they were following the script for the television movie that CBS will make about the case...