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Yet none of this is enough to suggest that we should simply burn our books and flood the classroom with TV monitors. Just because an infant cannot speak, we do not talk to him entirely in "goos" and "aahs"; rather, we coax him, gradually, into speech, and then into higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: History? Education? Zap! Pow! Cut! | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Last January, Vellucci announced he would not seek another term on the City Council. His decision marked the end of an era in city politics. Since the early 1940s, the City Council has been divided between members of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), an alliance of good-government reformers...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Ping-Pong, Popsicles and Politics | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

"People think I've had a face-lift," beams Carole Herman, 42, of Penn Valley, Pa. "It's astounding what a difference it makes." It is Retin-A, the nation's hottest new anti-aging potion, and despite the misgivings of some dermatologists about the perpetual parade of glops and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Antidote To All Those Wrinkles? | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Dermatologists are among those not buying. The new goos may give smoother shaves, they concede, and they actively approve skin treatments with sun blocks, to head off wrinkles. But doctors say the moisturizers, tighteners and abrasive scrubs make little discernible difference. "It's more hope than help," says Beverly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Trading Faces, the Latest Wrinkle | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

The minority hiring record in Boston is abysmal for a number of reasons, all of which contribute to a feeling among Blacks that they are not wanted in the city. Although goo-goos have pushed through programs like the Boston Compact, which provide jobs to untrained high school graduates--many...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Racism and Boston | 5/16/1984 | See Source »

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