| UT building fire billows smoke, but only damages ventilation unit
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A blaze in a utility building at the University of Tennessee produced a lot of smoke but no danger to students or other structures on the Knoxville campus, officials said Wednesday. The fire was isolated to a 30-by-30-foot, stand-alone chiller unit that provides heat, air-conditioning and ventilation to education, health sciences and computer sciences programs in the Claxton Complex. .
Why The Right Loves a Disaster
If Lindsey had his way, Wal-Mart, rather than lose sales, could just loan out money to keep its customers shopping, effectively turning the big-box chain into an old-style company store to which Americans can owe their souls. If this kind of crisis opportunism feels familiar, it's because it is. Over the last four years, I have been researching a little-explored area of economic history: the way that crises have paved the way for the march of the right-wing economic revolution across the globe. A crisis hits, panic spreads and the ideologues fill the breach, rapidly reengineering societies in the interests of large corporate players. It's a maneuver I call "disaster capitalism." Sometimes the enabling national disasters have been physical blows to countries: wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters.
Students can now carry plastic for purchases at Severn School
There are 585 students in grades six through 12 at Severn, an independent private college-preparatory day school in Severna Park. Since the beginning of February, about 80 students have enrolled in the card program. which is optional, Mrs. Pinnix Fish said. The card bears the student's name, identification number, photo and a bar code. It can be clipped to a lanyard. Currently, a separate photo identification card is given to all students. Mrs. Pinnix Fish said she loves the new system. "We're the first school in the area to offer this service in our cafeteria and bookstore," she said. "From a control standpoint, it's a good thing not to be carrying cash. It's a service we can offer to our students and their families." The program was not cheap.
Boy--Casualties of the Gender War
The current theories (now coming into question) of the inferior treatment of girls in the schools were, in the main, authored and promoted by Harvard's Carol Gilligan, whose papers, written between 1982 and 1990, were followed by a cascade of articles written by popular writers embracing Gilligan's assertions. At the same time as the Gilligan studies were being published and re-published, a study at the University of Michigan was showing that between 86 and 88% of the students (male and female) were happy, and unaware of the "accelerating downward spiral" cited by Gilligan and her colleagues.v,vi,vii Newer studies (1995-98) are beginning to cast more doubt on Gilligan's research. Even Gilligan has expressed some new ideas which seem to modify her previous position, and she more recently (1996) stated the "boys show a high incidence of depression, out-of-control behavior, learning disorders, even allergies and stuttering".
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