Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first position, Joan Maguire breezed by Harvard's Becky Tung, 15-5, 15-10, 17-14. Maguire won the first two games easily, then overcame a 14-12 deficit to complete the sweep...
Last week Kennedy's wife Joan, campaigning with her husband in Iowa, insisted: "Yes, I believe my husband's story." She expressed a belief that "these stories coming out now at this crucial time, just before the Iowa caucuses, should not be given any attention at all when we really should be discussing the important issues that my husband has been raising in his campaign." Her wish seems unlikely to be fulfilled...
...TIME'S Law section. Born in The Bronx, Sovern attended the Bronx High School of Science, took both his B. A. and law degrees at Columbia as a scholarship student and at 28 became the youngest full professor in the school's history. He and his wife Joan, a sculptor, live in Manhattan; they have six children by previous marriages...
...President Joan Ganz Cooney explains that her team wants "to build an appetite for science, not force feed it." Elementary-school teachers, responding to CTW's announcement of the show, have requested 100,000 copies of a free classroom guide. Though the show will generally be aired after school, the Friday program, which reviews the week's material, will also be broadcast during morning hours for classroom...
...show rushes on to a glider sailing through the Colorado skies. It is all pleasant viewing, but does it really teach science? Probably not, in any systematic sense, as CTW admits. Says Research Director Chen: "This is a show focused on attitudes, on encouraging positive feelings toward science." Adds Joan Duea, past president of the Council for Elementary Science International: "The show doesn't replace teaching. The teacher still...