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During his 46 years as an economics professor, George Stigler, 71, developed a reputation as an entertaining lecturer and a tough grader. Also, along the way, he came to be regarded as perhaps his profession's most insightful student of the effects of government regulations on industrial organizations and prices...
...SEVENTH GRADER studying American government years ago asked his teacher if people living in Washington, D. C. really didn't pay any taxes. Referring to the nation's founding principle of "no taxation without representation," his teacher mistakenly responded that since District of Columbia residents have no Congressional representation they did not pay taxes. "Today, I'm trying to make up for it," says Ruth C. Klick, the grade school teacher who now fights to win full representation for the District as a leader of the capital's chapter of the League of Women Voters...
Though his lyrics would sound puerile coming from a sixth-grader, Yeston's music is refreshingly versatile and fetchingly melodic. The masterly and inventive directorial hand of Tommy Tune is everywhere in evidence, but he has permitted the scent of high camp and low vulgarity to permeate far too much of the show. In one obnoxious sequence, a plump, leering bawd inducts the boy Guido (Cameron Johann) and three of his classmates into the rites of sex to the beat of tambourines and the priapic chant Be Italian, Intermittently spotlighted during the show is a quartet of women dubbed...
George Mamunes, 14, a gangling ninth-grader dressed in flannel shirt, blue jeans and hiking boots, knits his thick, dark eyebrows while putting the finishing touches on a computer program, already nearly 300 lines long. For those uninitiated in the special languages of the computer age, it looks like a hopeless mess of numerical gibberish. But when completed, these arcane instructions should produce a computer image of the heart detailed enough to show every major artery and vein, as well as valves and chambers. The electronic heart is part of a teaching tool George is putting together for eighth-grade...
...feet away sits Pam Miller, 14, a ninth-grader with long, brown hair draped far down her back. She is operating a computer program-or software-that simulates the workings of a nuclear reactor. Today she is fine-tuning the section that governs the control rods, those regulators of the reactor's nuclear fires. Tapping away at the keyboard, Pam explains: "You have to maximize the power output without destroying the reactor." Suddenly, flashing numbers burst upon the screen. "There," says Pam, her face lighting up. "Reactor overheated. Power output low. Reactor core damaged. Meltdown!" A disaster that...