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...school their children attend -- Cavazos never became a bully pulpiteer like his predecessor, William Bennett. Cavazos was handicapped further by Bush's desultory leadership. Since the President announced six national education goals last January, he, Congress and the nation's Governors have done little but squabble over who will assess whether the goals are being met. (Among the targets: every adult must be a skilled, literate worker and citizen; every school must be drug free...
Reason number two: "The Dartmouth Review serves the Dartmouth community, which we are unfamiliar with and therefore incompetent to assess...
Although it is impossible to assess the troop strength of this grass-roots movement, it is significant enough to spark a backlash. Recently Oprah Winfrey, no slouch of a trend barometer, featured "self-help addicts" on her TV show. Some reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment...
Intensive insulin therapy may prevent or delay complications, but it also sharply increases the likelihood of hypoglycemia. For this reason, in 1982 the National Institutes of Health launched a clinical trial to assess the connection between blood-sugar levels and the development of complications. Half the 1,441 volunteers are following the standard policy of two insulin * shots a day. The rest belong to an intensive-therapy group that tries to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible. Some participants, like Ken McDonald, are using insulin pumps. Others inject themselves with insulin four times a day. The results...
...time of the sexual act, and whether she was able to appraise Peterson's conduct. A third issue is whether Peterson knew of Sarah's condition; it is a crime in Wisconsin to engage in sexual intercourse with a person you believe to be mentally ill and who cannot assess your conduct...