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Hillary Clinton announced Friday that she wants to enlist 5 million new volunteers into a “national service reserve” aimed at 18- to 30-year-olds. “What if we strengthen the culture of service in America? So it wasn’t just something we did one day a year, but it became a regular part of our lives,” she asked in a Florida rally on the topic of national service Friday. The former secretary of state argued that her volunteer plan would help combat growing self-segregation in America, where people surround themselves with people who think, talk, look and read the same news as them....

An eye-opening look at race in schools (New York-WABC, March 27, 2006) - A provocative documentary suggests that students segregate themselves at lunch on campus. And those filmmakers brought their project to New York City students. It was a lively discussion. Education reporter Art McFarland has the story. A magnet high school in Buffalo: the fact that its cafeteria tables are segregated by race, was the point of this documentary film. Marco Williams, filmmaker: "The school cafeteria is a microcosm of our larger society and how we see one another." The film is called, "I sit where I want." It...