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Several U.S. corporate consortiums, including one jointly owned by AT&T, Chemical Bank, BankAmerica and Time Inc., are also exploring the videotext field. Two other efforts have ended in failure: last spring the Times Mirror and Knight-Ridder newspaper chains shut down a pair of failing videotext projects, for a combined loss of more than $80 million. "The odds are against Minitel," says James Holly, director of Times Mirror's electronic information services. "U.S. consumers are already overwhelmed by choices. Minitel would only add to the clutter." It appears that Americans are not about to join the Mayaux family anytime...
Good or bad, adequate or not, is some better than none? Does sex education work? So far, studies on the subject have been fragmentary, unconvincing or massively inconclusive. A six-volume 1984 analysis by Mathtech Inc. of nine programs around the country came to the deflating conclusion after a seven- year investigation that sex-ed courses had almost no effect on contraceptive use, views about premarital sex, or such social skills as assertiveness and , self-understanding. The only significant changes in behavior and attitude came in the two programs with strong backing from parents and the local community...
...group has confronted value-free teaching by devising and marketing a model curriculum that states traditional conservative values throughout. Teen- Aid Inc., with headquarters in Spokane and 25 affiliates in the U.S. and Canada, urges youngsters to "resist the tide" of a sex-saturated culture. The program tries to sharpen the "refusal skills" of students and sends summaries of lessons home to parents. Students are told to be careful about what clothes they wear on dates, and not to drink or take drugs while on a date...
...Kremlin retaliated by pulling 260 hired Soviet workers out of the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad, leaving Americans to do their own housekeeping. But some help is on the way. The State Department last week announced that it had awarded Pacific Architects and Engineers Inc. of Los Angeles a five-year, $10 million contract to provide American drivers, electricians and plumbers for the missions...
Workers from Westinghouse and Transformer Systems, Inc. will flush polychlorinated byphenyls (PCB's) from the library's central transformers, which lower the voltage of electrical current that enters the building, said John E. Cady, the assistant manager of Facilities Maintenance...