Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have different goals," observed one New York teen-ager in a recent survey. "They don't look at sex education as teaching us to understand sex. They look at it as a way of controlling our morals." And a lot of them do. Says Anaheim School Superintendent Paul Cook: "As soon as you start to lecture the kids, they turn you off. They just won't listen to people telling them what to do. We try to just give them the objective facts and tell them the decision is up to them...
...objective facts" include consequences. Despite Superintendent Cook's well-taken strictures against moralizing, the shapers of the Anaheim program were obviously interested in morality and social values. Cook, who used to teach the course himself, tells how it tries to prepare both sexes for the "traps" of dating. The message to the boys is that they need not make a pass at a girl to prove themselves masculine, and to the girls that they need not say yes to remain popular. Says Cook: "We try to give them answers for all the old con games." Without explicit moralizing...
...comforts of home into the wilderness, or what passes for it. Actually, most pampered campers turn up their noses at campgrounds that do not offer all the necessities: umbilicals for electricity, water and sewage, plus coin-operated washing machines and dryers, vending machines and infra-red ovens that will cook up a hamburger in 30 seconds...
...surface. This, they concluded, jibed with the opinion of U.S. military experts that the most severely burned victims of napalm and phosphorus die, sometimes of suffocation, without reaching a hospital. The C.O.R. doctors discounted Rusk's theory that many civilian "napalm burn" cases were actually injured trying to cook with gasoline: several victims they saw described the bomb that hurt them as a "gasoline bomb...
...could unscrew the cap, the can exploded at the seam and her face was splattered with the product, which is more than half lye. In less than two minutes, she was blinded for life. That was nearly eight years ago. Last week, after listening to her story, a Cook County Circuit Court jury decided that the Drackett Products Co., manufacturers of Drāno, should...