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Katherine K. Merceth, Special Assistant to the Dean for Institutional Planning, said yesterday that the plans would help high school education in two ways. The first program, a four-week intensive summer curriculum would help already-certified secondary school math and science teachers learn specific teaching methods and update their mathematical or scientific knowledge...
...book, Breaking the TV Habit (Scribners; $9.95), Wilkins describes the telltale signs and dangers of television addiction and offers a straightforward four-week program to break the habit without severe withdrawal symptoms. Addiction may be a metaphor, but the reality, according to Wilkins, is that among American children, television ranks second only to sleeping as a consumer of hours. The average American, both child and adult, watches more than six hours of television daily. By the age of 14, a devoted viewer will have witnessed 11,000 TV murders, claims Wilkins, and will digest 350,000 commercials before graduating from...
...Wilkins, adults hooked on TV tend to underestimate their dependency. Wilkins' method of kicking the habit is like the old-fashioned way of losing weight: eating less. The first step, as with overcoming any addiction, is mustering the will to do so. During the first week of her four-week program, she advises keeping a detailed daily schedule of all viewing. Says she: "Everyone is astonished by the total number of hours." The second week: Decide precisely which programs to watch and why you plan to watch them. Be critical, she says, and rate the programs afterward. Week...
...Last week the Fed indicated that it wants to change the script of the Friday follies. It proposed publishing seasonally adjusted figures for a four-week period rather than for just one week. Statistics for the longer period are not expected to show the often wild fluctuations of the weekly ones. The board is to make a final decision within four weeks...
...dogs or lions at all. What it does have is enthusiasm, charm and the friendliness of the small scale. "This is the maximum size I ever want to have," insists Director Paul Binder. "If we were larger, we would lose our intimacy and immediacy." Now completing a four-week run at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Big Apple Circus has something else most of its competitors, which play in huge arenas like Madison Square Garden, do not have these days: a 40-ft.-high, bright blue tent...