Scholastic Update articles from January 1992

Scholastic Update archives from January 1992

Can America's cities be saved?
January 10, 1992... Can America's Cities Be Saved? One hundred years ago, St. Louis was a world-class city, a center of industry, culture, and American spirit. It was the third-largest city in the United States, the gateway to the West, the fur-trading capital of...

Detroit, Mich.; "Motor City" in need of repair. (The Changing Fortunes of American Cities)
January 10, 1992... Detroit, Mich. "Motor City" in Need of Repair Every year, on the night before Halloween, Detroit erupts into flames. Residents, mostly youths, set fire to hundreds of abandoned buildings and vacant lots overgrown with weeds. This grim...

Pittsburgh, Pa.; steel town gets a face-lift. (The Changing Fortunes of American Cities)
January 10, 1992... Pittsburgh, Pa. Steel Town Gets a Face-lift If Detroit is a symbol of urban demise and hopelessness, then Pittsburgh is a metaphor for how cities can and do recover. Twice in its history, Pittsburgh has faced the threat of ruin and twice it...

Phoenix, Ariz.; problems on the desert horizon. (The Changing Fortunes of American Cities)
January 10, 1992... Phoenix, Ariz. Problems on the Desert Horizon Throughout the last decade, Phoenix was a quintessential "Sun Belt" city. Thousands of immigrants came from the industrial Midwest, where manufacturing jobs were disappearing, to settle in this...

Atlanta, Ga.; sticking to the fast track. (The Changing Fortunes of American Cities)
January 10, 1992... Atlanta, Ga. Sticking to the Fast Track To win the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta trotted out all its best selling points - the ones that made it the Sun Belt city of the 1980s: It was a town of racial harmony; it boasted community-minded...

The budget crunch. (includes related information on Indianapolis, Indiana) (Economy)
January 10, 1992... The Budget Crunch Imagine that you're sitting on the city council. You want to build more homeless shelters, hire more police, refurbish the parks, and fill potholes on the highway. Sounds admirable. But how are you going to pay for those...

Life at the bottom. (Mott Haven district, Bronx, New York, New York)
January 10, 1992... Life at the Bottom Six days a week, from midmorning until nightfall, Shirley Flowers sits alone in the lobby of her South Bronx apartment building, greeting neighbors with cheerful banter while doing her best to banish the nervous strangers...

Desperate measures? (solving problems in cities)
January 10, 1992... Desperate Measures? American cities today face immense problems. Crime, drugs, poverty, and homelessness are the most visible signs of a deteriorating quality of life. These problems affect all city dwellers, rich, poor, or middle income....

The same old story. (New York, New York)
January 10, 1992... The Same Old Story Today's newspapers are filled with stories of cities being crushed by social problems like crime, poverty, homelessness, and drug abuse. But urban historians point out that cities - and those who live there - have always...

From sea to shining sea. (includes atlas, almanac and related article on reading statistics)
January 10, 1992... From Sea To Shining Sea Anyone who has ever had the chance to drive across the U.S. knows that this country is one of striking diversity. Even if you never stray from the six-lane interstate highways that crisscross the country, the view...

A wide open future. (Europe)
January 24, 1992... IT WASN'T LONG AGO when the nations of Europe were part of a fixed political order. Eastern Europe was run by Communist regimes beholden to the Soviet Union. If any country tried to rebel, the Soviet moved in with tanks to reassert power....

Strength through unity. (Europe) (Illustration)
January 24, 1992... FOR CENTURIES, EUROPE HAS BEEN HOME TO some of the most powerful nations in the world. But in recent years, the United States and Japan have dominated the global economy. Western Europeans are hoping to once again become a financial...

Europe bloc by bloc. (Illustration)
January 24, 1992... European Community An economic and political organization of member states, based in Brussels, Belgium. Will form a unified economic market, allowing the free movement of people, goods, and services, by the end of 1992. European...

Superpower in the making. (Western Europe, European Community)
January 24, 1992... For the nations of Western Europen, the future is now. The 12 countries that comprise the European Community (EC), including Germany, France, and Great Britain, have begun a process aimed at transforming their divided continent into a...

The German giant.
January 24, 1992... TWO YEARS AGO, GERMANY hosted the party of the decade. Communism was collapsing throughout Europe. And the Berlin Wall, which had separated Communist East Germany from democratic West Germany for nearly 40 years, had fallen to pieces....

"A lifeline to sinking men." (Marshall Plan)
January 24, 1992... TWO YEARS AFTER WORLD War II, the most destructive war in human history, the continent of Europe had still not recovered from the shock. Homelss refugees crowded into major cities. Destroyed factories sat in piles of rubble. A depression...

In search of a mission. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
January 24, 1992... NATO's military commanders have not yet been reduced to searching for jobs through newspaper classified ads. But the are exploring nearly every other alternative as the 16-nation military alliance struggles to redefine its role in a rapidly...

Locking the gates. (immigrant population in Europe)
January 24, 1992... THE FACE OF WESTERN Europe is changing--and many Europeans don't like what they see. With a tide of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, nations throughout the West find themselves becoming multiracial, multiethnic societies....

The hard road ahead. (Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary)
January 24, 1992... POLAND In early 1991, Poland's new president, Lech Walesa, endorsed a revolutionary plan to heal his country's broken economy. The program, a form of economic "shock therapy," cut off government aid to industries and drastically raised...

A nation in chaos. (Yugoslavia)
January 24, 1992... LAST DECEMBER 9, LEAD-ers of the 12 nations that make up the European Community (EC) met in the picturesque town of Maastricht, in the Netherlands. There, they set the wheels in motion to create a "New Europe"--the largest economic and...

A teen summit. (geopolitical issues in Europe) (Panel Discussion)
January 24, 1992... WHILE LEADERS from 12 European nations met last month in the Netherlands to forge a united Europe, teens from 6 European nations and Russia met to share some ideas of their own. The meeting was arranged by the American Field Service (AFS), a...

Looking across the Atlantic. (political cartoons about Europe)
January 24, 1992... When the republic of Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia last June, the nation erupted in civil war. The Yugoslav central government has waged a determined campaign to deny Croatian independence, bombing almost every Croatian...