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...still among us, experimenting and creating. Last month she was the cover girl on After Dark, a homosexual magazine, and submitted to an hour-long television interview with James Day on NET. But late-life activity runs in her family. Her father began a correspondence course in algebra when he was well past...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Imaginations | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

...Johnny starts his algebra at the age of eight this year, why then Tommy will start his at the age of seven next. Have we all gone just a little bit mad?" asks Physician Thomas Charles Dann in a current issue of the British Medical Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Johnny Can't Sleep | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...that each controls the opposite side of the body-the left monitoring the right side, the right regulating the left. One hemisphere-the left in most people-is dominant and contains the areas that are associated with speech and hearing and involved with analytical tasks such as solving an algebra problem. The other governs spatial perception, synthesis of ideas and aesthetic appreciation of art or music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Anatomy of the Brain | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...cross-examination of Mount Grab's vice-mayor on local government. "I'd rather have my class go to see a city council meeting or fix the city's fire hydrants than sit in school all day," says Lodwick. "They're not going to use algebra and Latin, but they might want to run for council or be a fireman some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Handle Dropouts | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

WHEN ROTC WAS last an issue at Harvard, the Class of 1977 was busily finishing eighth grade, no doubt reluctantly putting aside Batman comic books for the rigors of algebra and civics. Also in 1969, the Indochina War entered Year V of massive American involvement; 500,000 GIs roamed the Vietnamese countryside, spreading waste and devastation, while American warplanes pulverized much of the rest of Indochina...

Author: By Daniel Swans, | Title: What Will Happen | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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