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...sold. They will instead be added to the growing De Beers stockpile of gems. The reason is that there is a worldwide glut of the precious gems. The vaults of diamond wholesalers are overflowing with rough as well as cut and polished stones, and the market for investment-grade diamonds has virtually collapsed. A rare one-carat D-flawless-grade stone that brought $62,000 at the peak of the market in 1980 is now worth only $15,000 or less, a decline of more than 75%. De Beers' sales arm, the Central Selling Organization, saw profits tumble...
When James Gaius Watt was in the third grade in Lusk, Wyo. (pop. 1,800), his mother organized a club called the Five Rabbits, which consisted of the five Watts. "We'd elect officers," says Lois Watt, now 71, "and the kid that got to be president held office for a month." That formality, Lois Watt says, was the way she and her husband William, now 75, "trained the children how to make motions, make amendments and so on." It was the right of each child, while president, to set the Five Rabbits' agenda. The girls, Elizabeth...
Gabler arrived at the hearings with two aides from her nonprofit Educational Research Analysts organization and 600 pages of detailed objections to publishers' offerings. In a fourth-grade text by McDougal, Littell & Co., the Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
...objected to a class discussion assignment on the concept of "worry." "It has no place being studied in the classroom," wrote the Gablers. The American Way rebuttal: "This objection is a dogmatic statement with no basis in education theory." The Gablers disapproved of an entire chapter of an eighth-grade civics book published by Scott, Foresman & Co. because of "an unnecessarily large amount of pictures of people protesting." The Gablers argue that "this is not an attitude most parents would want their children taught in school." Counters PFAW: "The United States was founded on protests. We find it ironic that...
Proctoring means keeping an open mind" also kept popping up at the orientation sessions, but as the hordes march back from their first encounter with Sebastion Sandwiches at the Union, the caste lines are already becoming clear. A quick primer on how the nation's eleventh grade elite arranges itself...