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...difference between informing and educating in journalism. While USA Today's staff members presumably share humanitarian goals with their peers at other papers, they seem less obsessed with tradition and less impressed by themselves. Color pictures are more attractive, as any black-and-white television watcher can attest. Charts and graphs aid understanding, as any graduate of a high school algebra and trigonometry class knows. Most articles that continue beyond the page they start on fail to compel readers to turn the page. All sad but true facts for the newspaper traditionalist educator...
...artifacts from the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, The Light of the Home illuminates the deadening burden that male supremacy imposed during the 19th century. Throughout Historian Harvey Green's lively text, advertisements, advice columns, how-to manuals and diaries kept by women of the period attest to an oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless...
...North Vietnamese, the triumph of 1975 held the sweet promise of peace and prosperity; once those in the South realized that a vengeful bloodbath would not take place, they too believed that better times were ahead. Yet as the rare U.S. journalist allowed inside Viet Nam can attest, that hope has not come true. Instead of realizing Ho's dream of a land ten times as beautiful as before the war, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, unifying North and South since July 1976, is vexed by troubles at home and abroad. Its economy struggles along, its 57 million...
...years at the helm. Graves has complied a 10-9 overall record and, as team members attest, has provided the inspiration for many key victories. In 1981, her team won England's Henley Royal Regatta. Graves' wealth of experience in the rowing world has been the Crimson's key asset, team members concurred yesterday...
...Society does appear to have cleaned up its act regarding anti-Semitism and racism Spokesmen for both the ADL and the NAACP attest to that...