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...their hypocritical actions, American schools today could produce moral schizophrenics. Basic psychology theorizes that mothers make their children schizophrenic by tempting a hungry child with milk, bringing the child closer, and then yanking him or her away from the mother's breast. Today schools tempt students with tantalizing promises of America's wonderful civil liberties, point bright eyes towards the Constitution, and then say, "No, that...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Civil Rights in the Classroom | 10/26/1983 | See Source »

...iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from itself." Freud's claim that the ancient Greeks had sensed what he had systematized is borne out by eerie resonances. In Aeschylus' drama, Orestes describes a snake "as though human ... its gaping mouth clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds of blood." John Ruskin has a serpent nightmare: "It rose up like a Cobra-with horrible round eyes and had woman's, or at least Medusa's, breasts. [It] fastened on my neck." The origins of tabloid astrology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedtime Stories | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Work in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor proceeded with painstaking slowness incomprehensible to the layman who would prefer to tear the secrets of the ages from TutankhAmen's breast in a day. Howard Carter and his staff have removed large quantities of highly decorated treasures, many of which are on exhibition in Cairo. Aided by 10,000 candlepower lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE 1923: With The Diggers: Howard Carter Excavates TutankhAmen's tomb | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...than substance: if the content is right, it does not matter whether there is one anchor or six." Yet when the shows are so similar, perhaps all that the networks have to sell is Brokaw's lopsided grin, Rather's riveting eyes, or Jennings' meticulously folded breast-pocket handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Three for the Money | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Beat Hospital Costs | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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