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PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE. It all started as a spoof of the Rose Parade, but this zany California happening has taken on a life of its own. This year look for 125 offbeat groups, including the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team and Snotty Scotty and the Hankies. Nov. 26; noon...
...famous Scopes trial ended 64 years ago, but educators are still grappling with the impassioned evolution vs. creation debate. Last week California's board of education adopted new teaching and textbook guidelines and, responding to Fundamentalist pressure, removed a reference to evolution as "scientific fact." But overall the document strongly supports teaching of evolution. California accounts for 11% of all U.S. textbook sales, and the guidelines could have wide impact...
Four years ago, California's education department declared that elementary and junior high school science texts needed fuller treatment of evolution. Subsequently, the education department detailed pro evolution guidelines for kindergarten through eighth grade to take effect in 1992. But the policy needed approval from the state board of education, which faced heavy lobbying on both sides...
...anticensorship lobby, People for the American Way, fears that the board's concessions could send the wrong message to nervous publishers or fire up Fundamentalists elsewhere. But California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig, contends that advocacy of evolution remains firmly in place; irate California Fundamentalists agree...
Some scientists, while intrigued by the discoveries, preached caution. "Definite conclusions cannot be made," said University of California at Berkeley Professor Joseph Silk. "Although this is a significant breakthrough, we must examine different areas of the universe before we make definite conclusions, or many theories about the universe will be proven wrong prematurely...