Word: ideas
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Postman argued last night that the public schools will be eradicated by privatization without a unifying idea to shape the curriculum...
Diane Ravitch, senior research scholar at New York University, who was an Assistant Secretary of Education under George Bush, is worried that these temporary setbacks will sour people on the idea of contracting private companies to run public schools. In fact, says Ravitch, schools need "an arsenal of approaches" to blast away at the public education crisis, including magnet and charter schools. "You can't tell kids in poor schools to hang on and five years from now the school will turn around," says Ravitch. "Their time...
...three, particularly Halberstam, won fame as pioneering antiwar critics after their Vietnam stints were over. But, says Prochnau, "the idea that this early group carried with them an antimilitary bent, polluting a generation of reporters, is one of the enduring myths of the war." The author quotes Sheehan: "We all believed in the American cause." Halberstam sent a message to James Reston of the Times: "I am impressed by what a bold and difficult thing we have undertaken here ... we are going up against the best revolutionaries of our time on their home ground in a type of war which...
...next step for the researchers is to locate the precise gene or genes involved and attempt to determine their biochemical effects. Will finding such "gay genes" rule out the idea that social and psychological influences can have a significant effect on a man's sexual preference? "Absolutely not," declares molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute, who headed both the 1993 investigation and the new one. "From twin studies, we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors, not to negate the psychosocial...
DIED. RAYMOND W. HOECKER, 82, onetime U.S. agriculture official; in Springfield, Missouri. In 1968 Hoecker came up with the idea of encoding product information in a scannable symbol. Today the familiar stripes of the Universal Price Code have helped abolish the tedium of waiting for slow cashiers to ring up purchases, replacing it with the more modern tedium of waiting for balky scanners to read...