Then they heard about the mandatory zero-calorie diet. From a Marshall Field’s release: “According to a recent survey by Mademoiselle magazine, 89 percent of all women have wanted to become a model at some point in their lives.”
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“The emerging information superhighway…has the potential to be the most environmentally destructive technology of the early twenty-first century,” claims Northwestern University political scientist James Snider in the Futurist (March-April), because it might let people live where they want. “If all Americans succeed in getting their dream homes with several acres of land, the forests and open lands across the entire continental United States will be destroyed….Today’s one-acre apartment building with 200 families will turn into 200 five-acre homesteads spread out over 1,000 acres….Paul Ehrlich calls for ‘a near absolute ban on the building of new freeways and roads.’ But environmentalists have yet to discover that the information superhighway might not only be destructive, but far more so than the physical highways of the past.”
What price equity? The state of Michigan recently replaced property taxes as the primary source of school funding, raised the base funding level from $3,000 to $5,000 per student, and greatly reduced funding disparities between school districts, according to a convention workshop report from the Illinois School Board Journal. The trade-off: “local control [was] replaced by more state control,” including a mandated curriculum and statewide proficiency testing, mandated breakfast programs and communicable disease instruction, standards for retention and staff development, and an increase in the number of hours in the school day.
