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Awareness of the dangers is spurring school systems across the U.S. to implement antibullying programs, which have proved effective in other countries. In Massachusetts, the Executive Office of Public Safety has set aside $1 million in federal money to help schools identify potential bullies and aid their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills...
...have a "long history of failure" and included Rational Recovery among them. At no time when I was running the local Rational Recovery group was drinking in moderation recommended or endorsed. People who can drink moderately don't need a group to do so. Rational Recovery is a nonreligious program designed to help people stop drinking, drugging or engaging in other self-defeating behavior. MARCIA J. FREEDMAN Rational Recovery Marin San Rafael, Calif...
SOCIAL SECURITY He considered privatization a way to shore up the system's finances, but recently dumped the idea, saying it would "savage" the program. He supports Gore's plan, but he also wants to look at raising the eligibility age and the payroll tax, and adjusting the cost of living index...
After seven years as the daughter of the Vice President, Kristin, 23, is well aware of the difference between the retirement program and the security agents who carry radios up their sleeves. But she still has trouble with the intrusion that comes with having a famous political name...
SOCIAL SECURITY Calling Bush's privatization plan "risky," he says he will shore up the program by using the surplus and paying down the debt (which could save $200 billion a year in interest). Like Bush, he has a private savings plan, but his is paid for out of general revenues...