Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This broader, more liberal-arts approach is enthusiastically endorsed by teachers. Says Yevgeny Yamburg, who is both the principal and a history instructor at Moscow's Middle School No. 109: "If an engineer has never heard Tchaikovsky's music, that is terrible." In addition, teachers will for the first time be given the option to choose among texts and to diversify curriculums, which have long been dictated by the central government. "Three or four years ago, any variations in instruction methods were unthinkable," admits Vladimir Shadrikov, vice chairman of the state education committee. "Now all this has become a reality...
After the plane landed, a cabin cleaner heard a muffled cry from a cabinet beneath the sink. There, covered with paper towels, was a newborn girl, umbilical cord still attached. The 8-lb. 9-oz. infant appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but otherwise seemed healthy. After the mother, Christina LoCasto, 24, of Staten Island, N.Y., turned herself in, authorities charged her with child endangerment. The 5-ft. 7-in., 155-lb. woman had not appeared pregnant to flight attendants, and even her husband says he was unaware of her condition...
...thought it was children playing with firecrackers," said Natalie Wogewoda, a 24-year-old French student who was shot in both legs. "Then we heard people screaming. Suddenly, I was nailed to the ground." Dozens of passengers tried to flee from the violence by leaping into the sea, where they were soon rescued by ships responding to an SOS signal issued by the captain of the Poros. Said the ship's owner, Antonis Kyrtatas, of the attackers: "They just came to kill...
Close your eyes the next time Bentsen speaks in Atlanta this week. Voice sound familiar? You've heard it before somewhere...
...contentious Bennett has made no bones about using the office to preach. / "This is the appropriate job for the Secretary of Education," says he, "where your powers to say and be heard are much greater than your powers to make things be." At the same time, he emerged as a formidable doer within the party. When the news came out that Supreme Court Nominee Douglas Ginsburg had smoked pot as a law professor at Harvard, Bennett made a critical call to Ginsburg, urging him to end his candidacy. Nor, in recent months, has he shown signs of easing back...