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...give their children a head start. Similar experiments are arousing interest in those who work among the poor. Dr. Joseph Sparling, for example, has developed and published a series of 100 educational games at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These games, which range from specific subjects like language development to vague concerns like self-image, have been tried out with some success over the past five years in a federally funded program called Project Care. Researchers use the games both in day care centers and in weekly visits...
After a succession of religious endorsements, King and Washington entered the chapel to the strains of "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" and took their campaign to the clergy...
...three childhood birthdays she also visited Shinto shrines, clapping her hands and clanging bells to awaken the gods so she could pray to them. In 1980 Keiko used Buddhist omens to select a propitious wedding day. But she exchanged Christian vows with her fiancé in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's elegant hotels. Keiko, now 26 and a mother, expects that some day her ashes will be interred in a Buddhist cemetery, where her descendants will annually return with a Buddhist priest to pray in her honor...
...student loans offered by the military. "Students know that if they go in and become, say, nuclear-weapons specialists, they can come out and demand a salary of $60,000 a year," says History Professor James Leutze, who heads the ROTC board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Military salaries, while not always competitive with those paid for comparable jobs in the private sector, are more than respectable, especially considering the wide array of benefits that are available: free medical care, room and board, and PX privileges. Monthly pay for a recruit is $574; for a sergeant...
...When I turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." He said he was prepared "to stake my reputation" on their authenticity. Newsweek Consultant Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill went to the same bank vault and reported that "my preliminary feeling was that they looked genuine." But he had reservations and said that much more study would be needed to be certain...