It's been a long time since Californians have seen a state budget passed on time. In fact, they were so fed up that last year voters approved a measure to dock their lawmakers's pay if they were late again. It seems to have worked. The California State legislature sent a plan to Gov. Jerry Brown after they passed it Monday night. When the governor signs it, as he is expected to do today, this would be only ...

THEY led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. When ...

My earliest and most vivid recollection is of being held by my ears over a well in the compound of a house where my family was then living, at what is now Tembeling Road in Singapore. I was about four years old. I had been mischievous and had messed up an expensive jar of my father's 4711 pale-green scented brilliantine. My father had a violent temper, but that evening his rage went through the roof. He took me ...

All the tough problems of U.S. North ern school integration — the ironies of good intentions and painful misunder standings, the subtleties of trying to ig nore skin color while trying to take it into account, the vain hope of having schools that serve both slums and middle-class neighborhoods— welled up last week in New York City's Harlem.Looking back, there is not much doubt that New York City's Board of Education should have built its new In termediate School 201 somewhere else than right in the ...

Founding the first modern Montessori school in the U.S. turned red-haired Nancy McCormick Rambusch from a housewife into a stormy prophetess. Her success in setting up the Whitby School in Greenwich, Conn., led to so much demand for her advice that she went on to start the American Montessori Society. "I'm sort of the Mary Baker Eddy of this organization," she remarks, a little ruefully. But Nancy Rambusch is proud that beginning with Whitby in 1958, the Montessori movement in ...

Two weeks after Claudia Losch of West Germany won a 1984 Olympic gold medal with a shot put of 67 ft. 2 1/4 in., Natalia Lisovskaya took that event at the Soviet bloc's boycott-inspired Friendship Games with a throw almost 5 ft. longer. Barred by politics in 1984 from a chance at world sport's most enduring honor, Lisovskaya began training at Moscow's Brothers Znamensky Sports School for Seoul in 1988. In 1980, when Greg Louganis was favored to become the ...

The White House says Austan Goolsbee, a longtime adviser to President Barack Obama, will resign his post as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers this summer to return to teaching at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Goolsbee has been the face of the White House on economic news, and is a regular every first Friday of the month explaining the administration's take on the latest jobless numbers. Goolsbee served on the three-member economic council ...

The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation's anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is starting to reemerge: child labor. In the first part of the 20th century, there was a concerted effort to end the scourge of children working in factories and textile mills. But now there is a small but noticeable drive to weaken these protections. ...

When no one owns a resource, we tend to overuse it--winding up with polluted skies, fished-out oceans and battles over access to freshwater. But too much ownership leads to problems too. A pharmaceutical company is stymied by a web of patents and doesn't make a drug. An airport can't buy land for a new runway to ease congestion because dozens of people own slivers of property. A production house, faced with a mishmash of music-licensing rights, keeps an old sitcom ...

Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly ...