Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been taking place in Texas, which has the country's No. 2 textbook market. The state board of education drafted guidelines requiring positive teaching about evolution for the first time. But in March, Bible Belters won a last-minute insertion that in addition to evolution, science classes should cover "other reliable scientific theories, if any." That opens the door to "scientific creationism," which offers evidence for the immediate creation of life-forms but does not refer to the Bible. Publishers are now trying to tackle the new requirements as they prepare science textbooks for submission to Texas officials next April...
Born to be hated: fresh-faced white boys, copping black street attitudes, co-opting black dance sounds, style and slang. They produce Reddi Wip pop music that comes out of nowhere but sells a cumulative 7 million on two albums, scoring with five hit singles (Cover Girl is currently No. 2), while the R. and B. brothers still struggle for the mainstream breakthrough...
Tuesday's elections gave us America's first elected black Governor, Doug Wilder of Virginia. That event, along with an analysis of the progress blacks have made in other contests, and Lance Morrow's account of his return to the grass roots of Prince Edward County, was our cover story until Thursday afternoon. But then came the stunning announcement that East Germans be allowed to travel through the Berlin Wall and would be granted freer elections as well. Bonn bureau chief Jim Jackson called me to urge that we change the cover, but my fellow editors and I hardly needed...
...COVER: After nearly three decades as the cold war's premier symbol, the Wall crumbles...
...Cover: Photograph by Chris Niedenthal