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...spent in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. In fact, the Federal Government has budgeted only about $330 million for AIDS research, including the 1986 allocation, and in four of the past five years Congress has increased Administration funding requests. AIDS researchers both in and out of Government insist that much more support is needed. "The funding is totally inadequate," says George Washington University Immunologist Allan Goldstein. "The nation has been put at risk with AIDS because of a lack of public leadership...
...peacemakers. That certainly is Reagan's interpretation. "I do think that this is a continuation of a longtime campaign," he remarked at his press conference, "to build an impression that we may be the villains of the piece and that they're the good guys." State Department officials insist that Soviet rhetoric has not been backed by concrete proposals. Said one top analyst: "We haven't seen anything in their hints that is different from a pure propaganda campaign...
Educators have been slow to ask for a better balance in how such controversial topics are handled or to insist on better writing throughout the books. In 1974 the California board decided that discussion of creation dogma belonged in social studies classes, not science classes. But it was not until 1983 that the state finally drafted specific guidelines that require full text treatment of natural selection, mutation and adaptation. In Texas, third behind California and New York in text purchases (5.5%), the state school board last year reversed a policy that evolution be taught as only one of several theories...
California officials insist that their ukase to publishers is not a rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...
...York City club reopens in November, the employees will include male waiters, dubbed Rabbits. In an effort to lure female patrons, the ! company (fiscal 1985 sales: $192 million) hopes to hire "attractive and athletically built" men. Company officials refuse to say how the Rabbits will be dressed but insist that they will keep their pants on. Among the current applicants are an Ivy League student and a ventriloquist. At the same time, some of the club's Bunnies will don less revealing garb. About half will be outfitted in sequined gowns or dresses, while the others will continue to sport...