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There is no question that expectations for curriculum and standards dropped over the past 20 years. In many schools, the art of diagramming sentences went the way of Wuthering Heights, and survey literature courses were transformed into cotton-candy electives like "Expressions of Love." Nationally, average scores on the verbal portion of SATS dropped more than 50 points from 1963 to 1980. A California survey found that many math and science texts now in use are ten to 20 years old. One book still used as a reference in a second-grade classroom near Cape Canaveral even tips off students...
Originally created by British commercial television, the series brings the household serving staff in from the cold periphery of drama to its center. All the episodes are self-contained, but there is a solid cotton thread tying them together, namely Rose, the head houseparlor-maid, played by Jean Marsh-who is also one of the show's co-creators...
Livestock will also munch on cheese, potatoes, oranges, birdseed, beet pulp, cotton seeds, tallow, brewery mash and chocolate-chip cookies. "Pigs love chocolate. They really do," says Robert Easter, an associate professor of animal science at the University of Illinois. The mash, however, causes the swine to stagger drunkenly a bit at first. Some farmers have used such products for years, especially in times of drought. But some animal nutritionists say the use of alternative feed, though not widespread at all, has become more attractive in these hard economic times. With proper dietary balancing, the experts say, the animals will...
...family. The case could have been a thriller co-written by Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. It began three weeks ago when a motorist in a lonely part of Exeter Forest stumbled upon a headless, bullet-ridden, badly decomposed corpse. Police eventually determined that the victim's beige cotton T shirt had been made in Morocco and her pink polyester shorts purchased in San Francisco. Then they received a call from an informed source suggesting that those clothes might belong to California-born Monika Zumsteg Telling, 27, the wife of an affluent member of British high society, Michael Telling...
...flood the world's markets. The axis of this second thrust is simple: to employ enough of China's surplus population at low enough wages to export Chinese manufactures to earn back from the rest of the world ? above all, from America ? the food, the timber, the cotton, the edible oils, the meat to keep the people above the starvation line...