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Makatini said the point is moot, "The issue is not how the country is governed, but who governs the country. The only way the ANC sees is universal adult suffrage. That will bring majority rule...
...manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs may even have had nurturing, maternal instincts. The recent discovery in Montana of the fossilized remains of tiny baby dinosaurs only twelve inches long, near an adult of the same species, suggests that females hovered protectively over their young offspring...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., the adult unemployment rate is 32%, more than half of the city's 14,000 residents are on some form of welfare, and 77% of the 8,900 public school students are either black or Hispanic. Most of the town's central business district is boarded up. Benton Harbor's students had scored 40% below the statewide average for the past five years. Two years ago, with solid support in the community, Superintendent James Hawkins began a program that requires every student to master basic minimal skills before being promoted to the next grade...
...Norman Kurland, director of adult learning services at the New York City department of education, "The real challenge is teaching students how to find information and how to use it to solve problems." Says Marc Tucker, director of the Carnegie Corporation's project on information technology and education: "What a marvelous thing it would be if kids and teachers could use computers to answer a whole bunch of 'what if questions: What if the Black Death had spread half as fast? What if there had been a quarter as much money in circulation in 1475? What...
Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement, Consenting Adult) suggests that the really basic human drives cannot be deterred. Murder, for instance, or war, or the neurotic love of a woman for a man who has hurt her. About the last, Hobson should know. Most of the men in her long life-she is now 83-seem to have turned out faithless or spineless, or both, and she has given them all ample opportunity to prove...