Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season. The desperate need to talk tough gave rise to a clamor for three-strikes-you're-out laws and other stringent penalties. But do those measures have anything to do with what works in the real world? A street-level look suggests that the popular wisdom has it backward...
...Then they took advantage of a trick first used by Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who discovered, back in the 1920s, that the universe is expanding -- and for whom the space telescope was named. If the whole cosmos is blowing up like a balloon, Hubble reasoned, then you can calculate backward to see when the balloon began to inflate...
...whose careers she strenuously promoted. But for the real thing, there is a mammoth new book, For Keeps (Dutton; 1,312 pages; $34.95), which collects about a fifth of her movie writing. So far as we know, that's all she wrote -- no fiction, no lit crit, no backward glance at an early life that included jobs as a seamstress, cook and children's companion (Auntie Mame from Mensa!). "I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs," she notes in the introduction to For Keeps. "I think I have...
...This backward development is quite puzzling, given modern technology and the fact that even pro-life activists are out murdering people...
Some critics of the movement argue that parents may have too much freedom under current laws. Only 10 states require parents to have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they...