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...think that we'll end up with that kind of curriculum," says Curriculum Coordinator Flora Atkins. "Everyone is extremely interested, and there is probably a small group which feels...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Future Physicians Learn How to Learn | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

Start with a lump of rock, add some flora and fauna and before you know it, your little planet's growing out of control. With a program called SimEarth, the whole world's in your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Until then: Yard flora, beware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop the Vegicide | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

...knew what I was doing, I wouldn't do it," says the avant-garde artist, paraphrasing her idol Samuel Beckett. Her productions are always an evocative blend of dance, music, words and light, but to her latest piece, Endangered Species, she brings something + entirely new: live animals, including Flora, a baby elephant, and Clarke's own horse, Mr. Grey. She maintains that they're being used as "sentient creatures" rather than beasts of burden or embarrassed icons. Finishing the work, which focuses on mankind's domination of nature, has given the former modern dancer little chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Women: To Each Her Own | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...prison guards with the same amount of seniority earn almost $30,000. U.S. airline pilots are vigilantly trained, screened and monitored; school-bus drivers are not. "My hairdresser needs 1,500 hours of schooling, takes a written and practical test and is relicensed every year," says Flora Patterson, a foster parent in San Gabriel, Calif. "For foster parents in Los Angeles County there is no mandated training, yet we are dealing with life and death." The typical foster parent there earns about 80 cents an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shameful Bequests to The Next Generation | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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