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...that kind of education and all the "I hear what you're saying" and relativism that can go along with it. But we never got the feeling, as current strong-values advocates claim, that are no values or standards of right and wrong. We learned that different standards do exist, but that there are gray areas. I definitely came out of class knowing cheating was bad, dying was sad, and not to sleep with that sexy 17-year-old guitar player until at least my 15th birthday. Yet no one ever told me America was the greatest nation...
Mario Cuomo has jumped on the heretofore conservative bandwagon to endorse "values education"--that is, telling kids what is right and not teaching them how to decide for themselves. He has limited his proposal to issues about which there is no dispute "in the community." Few such issues exist, however, and who is going to gauge the community's value system...
...public has become more aware andstarted to peel back the tattoos, we became moreaware that these problems exist and are in allcommunities," Porter-Honnet said...
Oligopoly of sorts may already exist. If the latest buyouts take place as planned, eight airlines will control more than 87% of the U.S. passenger market (see chart). The rush of new entries into the passenger business that began with airline deregulation in 1978 has long since peaked: from a high of 123 certified passenger carriers in 1984, the field has now shrunk to 96. Enthusiasm for new airline ventures among financial backers has dropped dramatically. Says Geoff Crowley, a senior vice president of Presidential Airways, a year-old low-fare carrier based in Washington: "We wouldn't be able...
...says he went ahead with government approval. Israel bases its claim to Taba on a 1906 Turkish map that delineated the border between Egypt and Palestine, which was then a province of the Ottoman empire. According to that document, the line ran close to three palm trees that still exist. The Egyptian counterclaim hinges on a 1915 map drawn up by British military surveyors, including T.E. Lawrence, the legendary Lawrence of Arabia. This map places the border on a hilltop more than half a mile east of the 1906 line -- and, as it turns out, in or near the present...