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...coarsening of the culture," but it also illustrated the feminist dictum that the personal is political. It demonstrated--just as working women's juggling of job and home life does--that sloppy private matters can't be neatly divorced from public life. From 24-hour news to Politically Incorrect, groups of people arguing took root as the dominant mode of infotainment. The era of mouthing off was on the rise...
...Schmid is simplistic on calculators, incorrect on "downgrading skills," hyperbolic on the "avant garde reformers," irrational on textbook economics, ill-informed on "statistical studies and anecdotal evidence," inverted on the role of "understanding" in the "New Math " of the 60's (except that it was, indeed, "the mathematicians" who pushed that misguided effort into our schools) and tangential about "textbooks." He is correct to call for continuing improvement in teacher education to support more challenging mathematics in every classroom, but wrong to downplay the central role of pedagogy in pre-college math classrooms...
...After losing two children at their birth, the 27-year-old farmer's wife is frightened for the baby that is due soon. Nirmala Palsamy, the nurse who is visiting this makeshift clinic in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is also worried. This fetus is in an incorrect position. "You know that you might need an operation, don't you?" she asks her patient. Mallai bursts into tears. Nirmala patiently explains that a caesarean surgery will help the baby. Then she makes a little joke and asks after the rest of the family. Mallai begins to smile again...
...years I just sat back and did nothing," says Lydon, 43. "I was building up my reserves." Last seen in 1996 on a money-grubbing Sex Pistols "reunion" tour, he is now host of a four-hour weekly webcast on eYada.com occasionally pops up on ABC's Politically Incorrect, and backed The Filth and the Fury, a documentary that aims to tell the definitive Pistols story...
...extent that there's an impression created that the University has been inactive or ineffective on the issue, that couldn't be more incorrect," he said. "It arises out of [the fact that] a municipality acting on this issue makes the decision very differently than a university...