Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that we try to influence the Chinese, rather than alienate them; that, ever more confident in democracy and capitalism, we work with Jiang rather than arouse his ire and risk a new Cold War. As Harvard visiting scholar Xiaohuang Yin argues in yesterday's Globe, without arriving at a common ground in terms of trade policy and international treaties, the security and prosperity of either nation cannot be ensured...
...data he collects, Goodman dismisses the research conducted by his opponents. Asked if there is research from other fields that confirms his findings, he cannot think of any. His final defense is that phonics teaches the ability to recognize individual words, not to understand text, but studies confirm what common sense tells us: comprehension depends on word recognition...
...discussion goes on. Of all the arguments in the debate, perhaps the most pernicious is that teaching phonics is harmful to poor and minority students. Leslie Patterson, a professor of education at the University of Houston, voices a common concern: "One of the risks, when we focus on the alphabetic principle and give tests in the first grade to identify kids with problems," she says, "is that we will end up identifying the kids who are growing up in poverty and who need much more than just letters and sounds." But it is the children growing up in poverty...
...Trouble (Simon & Schuster; 875 pages; $32.50), by the late J. Anthony Lukas, strives to do more than just re-create the trial; it tries to hoist a whole world onto its shoulders--people, landscapes, buildings, ideas and all. Lukas, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Common Ground, his study of school desegregation in Boston, committed suicide last spring, reportedly in despair over the new book. He was a devastating critic of his own work, and Big Trouble shows the strains of this perfectionism. Branching off from the story of the trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores...
PILL CHILL Overdoses of acetaminophen may be the most common cause of acute liver failure in the U.S. Particularly dangerous when mixed with alcohol, the drug is often taken unwittingly: it's in many cold remedies and prescription pain-killers, as well as Tylenol...