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Westheimer began her address, centered on the need for sexual literacy, with an attempt to debunk many of the myths about sex and sexual attitudes...
While confirming many rumors, Tifft and Jones debunk the darkest: that Judge Robert Worth Bingham murdered the new wife whose bequest enabled him to buy the papers in 1918. They suggest that she died of alcoholism or tertiary syphilis contracted from a prior spouse. Promised revelations about what finally led Barry Sr. to sell prove anticlimactic: senior aides were ready to move on, making continued family operation unmanageable. What really deserted the Binghams was the faith that a family-owned newspaper is more than a mere capital asset. The book never proves that Bingham ownership was all that good...
Perhaps the most problematic development is the emergence in dozens of cities of "Afrocentric" curriculums. All of them legitimately seek to ) bolster black children's confidence in their ability to achieve and to debunk the patronizing notion that black American history and culture began with the Emancipation Proclamation. When pursued with intellectual discipline, the Afrocentric idea can be inspirational. Says Franklyn Jenifer, president of Howard University, in recalling his own education at that historically black school: "Every course I took was infused with some sense of our destiny or my personal destiny and the possibility of my achieving...
...considered following the example of people who debunk claims of the supernatural by offering huge cash rewards to anyone who can produce positive evidence of suspicious phenomena...
Several years ago, when I was still an idealistic first-year, I set out with an evangelical fervor to debunk the cowtipping myth. After all, Harvard prides itself how students from diverse backgrounds learn so much from one other. Since I never spent a year teaching calculus to Tibetan peasants or did any groundbreaking research on snail mating, I figured my unique intellectual contribution would be in the area of livestock management...