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...Depoliticizing" literature is not that simple. A fourth of the ALSC budget comes from the very conservative Bradley Foundation, which has subsidized the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute as well as the authors of The Real Anita Hill and The Bell Curve. Alter insists that the foundation never interferes in his group's operations. A bigger problem for him is that ideological lit-crit is so popular within the profession. Can a small band of traditionalists hold it off? They look for signs of hope. In an issue last year of Lingua Franca, Duke professor Frank Lentricchia...
Congress likes this kind of budgetary horse sense, and though Washington hasn't guaranteed NASA funds for even a stripped-down Mars program, the enthusiasm for Pathfinder on Capitol Hill bodes well. "An entire generation has grown up in the two decades since we last viewed the soil of Mars close up," says Congressman James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Committee on Science. "I can't wait for our kids to see those pictures." Whatever may happen to future missions, this week the kids should start to see plenty...
...agency pays Russia for flights to Mir and for other joint projects--was already questioning whether it was wise to fly such a derelict ship. With two more Americans still set to ride aboard Mir before this cycle of joint flights ends, in May 1998, many on Capitol Hill want to pull the plug on the missions. "The incident," says Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, "should prompt further debate over how much we are willing to sacrifice for manned space science." NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin doesn't agree, and for now is standing by the Russians. "Things go wrong in space...
...brightly fortune smiles on Indian Hill High School, visit the "suite" where three counselors help steer almost all of the 150 seniors to college, or watch a practicing pathologist teach college-level biology, or witness students pull their homework off the mainframe serving the building's 300 computers. "It's a joy to teach here," says principal Laura Abegglen. "You don't ask teachers to pull magic out of thin...
...County, where wages are low and property taxes unpopular (the district spends only $4,200 per pupil each year), the ruling took the form of deliverance. "This is our chance to get out," said superintendent John Simmons. But not at our expense, reply residents of manicured places like Indian Hill, where per-pupil spending nears $8,000 a year and voters have only once killed a school levy (they said no to a new swimming pool...