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...neglected to tell her classmates at a high school reunion what she does for a living. "You almost had to drag it out of her that she worked at the White House," says Waukegan Township High School classmate Chandra Sefton. She is so reserved that she often uses only facial expressions to reveal her opinions. She keeps her private life so private that some of her co-workers were not really aware of her divorce, her courtship with the man who became her second husband, or the deaths last year of her brother and her sister. She is regarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Currie Riddle | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Using her knowledge of cave paintings and her study of various hunter-gatherer tribes over the past 20 years, Pontius posits that the disproportionate facial features drawn by Stone Age artists in their cave paintings may not be a result of their "primitive" developmental state but rather a response to their dangerous, nomadic lifestyle...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...result, Stone Age artists represented intra-pattern facial relations inaccurately...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...face-drawing test, Pontius says she asked her subjects to draw a person facing forward. She then looked to see if they portrayed the intra-pattern facial relations correctly...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...says the link between literacy andintra-pattern facial relations may explaindyslexia--a common reading disability--or even thehigh illiteracy rate in inner-city schools...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

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