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...while addiction to heroin increased and while divorce rates rose dramatically. But no one would argue that infant deaths were reduced by heroin or divorce. Clearly, infant mortality rates have dropped because of a host of factors such as improved health care, immunizations, higher standards of living, etc...
From your story "Lots of Smiles but Few Sales" [Oct. 16], it appears that the generous-but naive-foster parents have nurtured in Japan an avaricious monster. Perhaps it is time for manufacturers, labor unions and the "taxpayer revolt" to demand equivalent protective tariffs, import-license red tape, quotas, etc., for such a shrewd economic predator, who prospers hugely at our inflationary expense...
This recognition of weakness in the structure sparked off the "Great Debate" over education, instigated by Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan two years ago. Central to many widespread demands are calls for greater emphasis on applied science and the production of engineers, technologists, etc., from the universities--which may seem innovative. But in other demands for "commoncore" curricula in both secondary and higher education--minimum standards of literacy and numeracy as opposed to flexible choice--the English tendency to conservatism in education is manifest. Many academics still complain that too few students are brought up on the classics...
...five Ts'ao family members are factory employees. Ts'ao Hung-ch'i and his wife Ch'en Su-ch'ing, both 42, and their oldest daughter, Ts'ao Su-wing, 24, work in Kweilin's Measuring Equipment Factory (micrometers, T squares, etc.). A younger daughter works at another plant, and their son is in school. As a factory worker's son, the boy has a good chance of being accepted at a university - if he can pass his exams and shows a "good attitude." The Ts'aos' combined monthly...
...were full of encouragement when she decided that she wanted to change her educational direction from Russian studies to acting. At 15, freckled, a bit chubby, with the look of a beauty five years before she would be beautiful, she had a small part in Faustine et le Bel Etc. Even then she was very much self-propelled, and by now she has an unusually firm idea of what she wants to do with her career. She has just finished playing Anne, the youngest Bronte, in Andre Techine's The Bronte Sisters. She prefers directors who let actors work...