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...apocalyptic tone, what this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote and providing a context later. Hirsch acknowledges that the method has been derided since Dickens satirized Pedant Thomas Gradgrind ("Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!") in Hard Times. But, he counters, "it isn't facts that deaden the minds of young children, who are storing facts in their minds every day with astonishing voracity. It is incoherence -- our failure to ensure that a pattern of shared, vividly taught, and socially enabling knowledge will emerge from our instruction...
...isn't unemployment among youths frighteningly high? It is indeed: 15.9% among teenagers generally, 33.3% for black teenagers. Unfortunately, many of the jobless youngsters are stuck in central-city ghettos. They have no way of getting to the fast-growing suburban areas where jobs in stores, hotels, fast- food restaurants and the like go begging; public transportation out to the suburbs is often nonexistent. They also do not have easy access to the resort areas, where the summer-worker crunch is particularly severe...
What does Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger like to do when he isn't terminating bad guys or zapping aliens? He goes to prison. To teach body- building classes to inmates, that is. The star of the sci-fi summer hit Predator caused more than the usual buzz of excitement during a recent visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various...
...Desiree was fathered by Elvis, is pushing the recently published Are You Lonesome Tonight?, which purports to dish out the hot sticky behind the entire episode. Meanwhile, the King's official ex-wife, Actress Priscilla Presley, is offering a one-hour video tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland. It isn't hard to figure what Elvis would have made of all this fuss: he was used to it. Besides, Colonel Tom Parker, his manager, could always work it out so that he and his boy got a good cut of the action...
...Isn't Sir Terence Conran busy enough for one family? After all, he runs a 900- store empire on both sides of the Atlantic, selling furniture, housewares and clothes that bear his imprint. But no, other family members have got into the act. His son Sebastian, 31, runs an industrial-design firm, and has created products ranging from baby carriages to hangars. Another son, Jasper, 27, is one of Britain's hottest clothing designers, whose clients include Princess Diana and the Rolling Stones. Sir Terence's sister Priscilla oversees the development of new products for her brother and still finds...