Word: overcrowdedness
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Under the guns, Rangoon is returning to normal, at least on the surface. Stores are open, tea shops are busy, and hopelessly overcrowded buses lumber unsteadily through the streets. But the mood is sullen. "We are like a dormant volcano: calm on the outside, boiling inside," says a government worker...
While responsibilities and demands have multiplied, teachers have seen little increase in the financial or moral support they need to do the job. Overcrowded classes, inadequate or outdated equipment and long hours are common. At the same time, in a panicked effort to improve their schools, many states and localities...
AT A TIME when the nation's prisons are overcrowded and courts backlogged, there is something inspiring in the handling of Washburn's case. Things do go so smoothly when one deals with the right class of people.
Create more community-based health clinics. The homeless crisis began when overcrowded mental hospitals started to release patients who were not considered dangerous to themselves or others. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions dropped from a peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30...
They are known as the boys -- and girls -- on the bus, but the TIME correspondents covering the 1988 presidential campaign have spent so much time on airplanes that they occasionally yearn for the pleasures of an overcrowded Scenicruiser. Los Angeles correspondent Michael Riley has developed a love- < hate relationship with...