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...addition, Turkish villagers usually consider men superior to women, but Atinc said she has had little difficulty handling the idea of women's lib, as her performance on the court will readily attest...

Author: By Susan K. Mccune, | Title: Tamar Atinc: | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...schools." Increasingly, parents are showing a healthy impatience with the professionals. Coos Bay Lumberworker Don Dean, who has a daughter at Marshfield High, complains that too many kids see school as a democratic institution. It's not. It s an institution of learning." School-tax rebellions attest to parental dissatisfaction. Other indicators are experiments in Illinois and California with performance "contracts" between schools and parents. Example: in Oakland, teachers and parents last month signed a contract in which the teachers agreed to assign homework and parents in turn promised to provide their children with a quiet corner for studying every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Finding fossils requires both sharp eyes and a sort of anthropological sixth sense. An experienced fossil hunter, Ka-moya Kimeu, who heads one of Richard Leakey's search teams, has found scores of fragments that attest to early man's presence in East Africa. Most people would walk past these small brownish objects without seeing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reading the Fossil Record | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...acts of gross harassment, beatings, psychological brutalities and other rights violations. That is, it employs 'counter'-'terror' in the true sense of both those words. Even if in part untrue or distorted, newspaper articles, personal testimony and the incidents of harassment that can be seen daily in the streets attest to a continuing pattern of army misconduct...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: A Bleeding Ulster | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

...vast numbers of drawings done by Die Brucke (many of which are no longer extant) attest to the desire of these artists to make the pencil a sixth sense, an uncerebrated recording of their response to what they saw. Heckel's Reclining Woman (1913) exemplifies the spontaneous quality sought after; the carpenter's pencil defines the woman's body in uncompromising, strong lines, and shades the form into three-dimensionality with vibrating squiggles that are intended to be read as trails of the artist's pencil...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Chronicles of a Crossing | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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