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...education is to be beneficial [EDUCATION, Nov. 24], it should include two components: factual information about sexual functions and concrete instruction on values. Since many parents shudder at the thought of "sex talk," we should expand public education to include classes that will guide parents in clarifying their own sexual values and developing the skills they need to communicate these standards to their youngsters. Julia H. Hawgood Cincinnati...
...would like to see a law against forcing someone to marry. A Liberal-Democrat member of the House of Lords introduced a bill to curb the practice by civil means. It was debated on Jan. 26 but has little chance of becoming law without government support. Sanghera intends to expand Karma Nirvana, eventually to Scotland and Wales, and dreams of a "national network of friendship for women like me, women who are alone. We will send them birthday cards." As Sanghera has learned from the tumultuous life described in Shame, there is more than one kind of family...
...talks with China in recent years have been sporadic, at best. The heaviest hitters in President Bush's Administration have been preoccupied with the war on terror and the deepening fiasco in Iraq. Aside from last April's promise by China's President Hu Jintao to try to expand market access for U.S. goods, there has been scant evidence of constructive dialogue on trade issues...
...mixture of influences might produce an opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor of Hero and House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden Flower and duplicate it, expand and perfect it, on the giant stage. Might we also have some swordplay and wire work...
...Radcliffe has forced Faust to become something of an academic jack-of-all-trades—an asset as the search committee looks for a president who will expand the University’s science initiatives...