Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the strongest advocates of nuclear power have warned for years that it would take only one accident to cripple the U.S. atomic energy program. Just hours after that pump failed at Three Mile Island, the chief environmentalist for a New England utility predicted: "This is the end of nuclear power. From now on in, it's going to be coal city...
...hurt, police were called and the parents prepared to press charges. In most cities, the result would have been a court proceeding and bad tempers all around. But in Columbus the matter was turned over to an informal mediation process called the Night Prosecutor's Program. Within two weeks, after a meeting refereed by a local citizen trained in mediation techniques, the parents and the homeowner made a deal: they would control their kids better, she would sell the gun, and together they would finance a fence. Case closed...
...first such programs was set up in 1975 in the crime-plagued Dorchester section of Boston. Of the 1,200 cases heard in Dorchester's storefront Urban Court Program so far, 89% were settled there without having to be put before a judge. No one is forced to participate; either party in a dispute may insist on having his case heard in a conventional court. Those who decide to try the program sit down with two mediators-community members who are paid $7.50 a session for this part-time work and are trained to handle disputes coolly. Says Urban...
...court settlement procedure called arbitration, in which the counselor, rather than the parties themselves, crafts the solution. California, for example, uses this system to handle certain medical malpractice claims. Both arbitration and mediation help clear court dockets of many minor cases. They also often save money: in the Columbus program, the cost of the average agreement, including the mediators' pay, is $20, vs. $250 for the typical court case. But mediation does not promise to break the nation's litigation logjam. Says William Yeomans, a Justice Department expert on such programs...
...Great Books," and most people think of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, not Jack and the Beanstalk. But Jack has won a place, along with Winnie-the-Pooh, The Jungle Books and excerpts from James Thurber, in a respected and fast-growing reading program called Junior Great Books. Created for elementary and secondary schoolchildren by the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation, the reading-discussion program does not aim to "teach" the classics. It tries, instead, to teach young people to enjoy good books and to understand better whatever they read. Explains Edwin P. Moldof, the foundation's vice president...