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...Well, I guess that's pretty meritorious, I have to admit it. But, no, wait a minute. What is "merit" really? Could "merit" possibly be one of those terms your TF would applaud you for labeling--yikes, I shudder and clench my teeth to use the faddish descriptor--"socially-constructed...
Then there's the matter of the test questions. Test designers have released a few sample problems, but no one knows exactly what the exams will look like. And so everyone is anxious. Critics charge that the committees drafting the exams are using them to promote faddish pedagogies like "whole language" and "fuzzy math." Last month a disgruntled group of teachers and academics penned a letter to the President contending that the eighth-grade math test isn't tough enough in measuring basic computational skills. On the other side, the Cambridge-based watchdog group FairTest opposes the exams, executive director...
...often prescribed to treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorders, as a treatment for bulimia. The move, indicated by an "approvable letter" the FDA has issued, could prompt many doctors to turn to the touted miracle drug to help solve the eating disorder -- despite an unresolved controversy over whether the faddish pills from Eli Lilly & Co. actually leave some depression patients worse off. TIME science writer Christine Gorman points out that physicians have already been giving bulimia patients Prozac (it's not an "approved use," but still legal to prescribe). But, Gorman says, federal approval is avote of confidence that could...
Treatments for cancer and AIDS are also high on his list. One healer, for example, claims to have isolated a substance in urine that turns tumor cells back to normal. The new office might also look into a faddish AIDS therapy that has patients paying up to $20,000 to be hooked up to dialysis-like machines that pump ozone into the bloodstream...
...consequence of letterform democracy typography now tilts in a direction that conservative designers of the last century would abhor. Faddish fonts dominate the media for a few months, than grow obsolete. Last year you could find Adobe's "Lithos," "Industria," and "Insignia splashed across potato chip bags, MTV, HBO, and the ads in this newspaper. It becomes possible to date to document by the type it contains. "windsor? So woody Allen, so '87. Copper plate?. Already retro by the summer of 1992. "Arcadia?". Late November 1991. "About Faces" contain non of these...