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...think your readers might want to know that the educational software product listed in your Best Sellers chart is called Math Blaster!, not, as you had it Math Buster...
...followed by a birth in California this month that involves another kind of egg transfer between two women. The difference is that the California baby was conceived not in a Petri dish but in the body of the woman donating the egg. In the method used by Dr. John Buster and his team at Harbor/U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Torrance, a woman with healthy ovaries was artificially inseminated with sperm from the husband of an infertile woman. Five days after fertilization, the donor's uterus was flushed with a nutrient solution and the embryo was recovered and implanted...
...yeehah-ing ride on a nuclear bomb dropped on the Russkies in Dr. Strangelove (1964); of lingering complications after the 1982 removal of a brain tumor; in Modesto, Calif. Born Louis Bert Lindley Jr., he changed his name in the 1930s when he became a rodeo clown and bronco buster, explaining his new moniker "was a natural, considerin' that in those days you didn't make a dime doin' rodeos...
Roth has a genius for the comedy of entrapment. He is an uncompromising myth buster with a taste for bruising intimacy. Neil Klugman of Goodbye, Columbus and Alexander Portnoy were devoid of sentimentality and nostalgia for a lost paradise. Their Newark neighborhood had its charms, but it was basically a staging area for an assault on the sophisticated culture of New York, perhaps even London and Paris. The golden ghettos of suburbia struck them as Newarks with wall-to-wall carpeting...
...REAL DANGER with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...