Word: farness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talbott is now one of what might be called Le Carre's People, an exclusive team of TIME correspondents the novelist has consulted through the years. Whenever he needs sophisticated guidance about the far-flung settings of his novels or the kind of characters who populate those worlds, Le Carre travels to the scene of intrigue, seeks out the best reporters he can find and interviews them thoroughly, taking voluminous longhand notes. "It has followed by chance that they are TIME people," he explains. "It's because TIME has the knack of hiring very good local people...
...them the wonder years, but for millions of youths between the ages of ten and 15, the years of early adolescence are anything but wonderful. No longer children, not quite adults, they are bombarded by ! dizzying physical changes, reeling emotions and raging hormones. Today's youngsters, however, face problems far more formidable than acne or gangly limbs. Drinking, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, once the province of high schools, have drifted into the lower grades. Add to this the crippling effects of broken homes and ill-equipped parents, and it is easy to see why nearly...
...price tag for transforming the country's middle schools will doubtless be higher than the federal, state or local governments want to pay. But, warns Carnegie, the real choice is whether to fund health clinics, counseling and teacher training today or pay the far higher cost of dropouts, an ill-prepared work force and swelling welfare and prison rolls tomorrow. "The nation cannot afford to continue neglecting these youth," concludes the report. Lorraine Monroe, director of the Center for Minority Achievement at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education, agrees. "We can't hold school the way we used...
...complete Wilmarth retrospective has not arrived, but the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan has mounted a small exhibition of 25 of his sculptures (through Aug. 20), sensitively curated with an excellent catalog essay by Laura Rosenstock. Even from this limited evidence, it is clear that Wilmarth was by far the best American sculptor of his generation...
...require costly reductions in tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until the fuel was widely available, and gas stations would probably not install methanol pumps until large numbers of cars...