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...Slowly but inexorably, they revert to savagery. "The theme," Golding explained, "is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." The book sold modestly in both England and the U.S. (2,383 copies), but a paperback reprint issued in 1959 hit pay dirt. It became the desired and then the required reading for millions of high school and college students...
This sensitivity to schools could in turn contribute to solving the larger problems of teacher quality. For some time now, the average SAT's of education students have been among the lowest of any professional group. We call teachers professionals, but their paychecks label them dirt. Some politicians argue that pay grades--apprentice teacher to full teacher to senior teacher to master teacher--will superimpose a professional framework through competitive merit pay, but it is a travesty to suggest any instructor merits some of the wages currently doled out in schools. For many years, the brightest women and minorities entered...
Next day, after an early morning flight to Ningpo's carefully guarded airport, Chiang bounced and jostled by auto over a one-lane dirt road some 40 miles to Fenghwa, his home town, in the knob-topped Sze Ming Mountains. Nestled on a pine and laurel-covered slope is the Gimo's one-story, four-room retreat. A few feet up the slope is a wood and stone arch inscribed with the legend: "Road to Mother Chiang's Tomb." Through it passes a wide-stepped pebble and flagstone walk...
...source of solid comfort to fabric manufacturers. But it is also a source of problems for the women who wear them. As any man knows, pants get caught in bicycle chains. They bag at the knees, wrinkle in the rain and flap in the wind. Their cuffs collect water, dirt and lint. Their zippers fail. Pants also excite dogs...
...heated up two months ago when Legal Services President Donald Bogard ordered a bizarre set of "raids" on his own regional offices in search of material showing questionable practices by his predecessors. That effort struck pay dirt with the release last week of a preliminary report from the General Accounting Office, alleging that some former Legal Services officials and grant recipients violated LSC's prohibition on using funds for political organizing. The GAO, which is the investigative arm of Congress, based its 16-page report principally on a January 1981 meeting in Boulder, Colo., attended by top Legal Services...