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...year-old wearing a leather cross, dangling earrings and a black leather cap angled on a head that is shaved but for red tendrils over an ear. He sits in his jaunty outfit learning fractions and writing poems. The young man's mind is so keen that when a deaf student came to class, he learned to sign in half an hour. This makes him think he may eventually work with the handicapped, but until this year he was not a dedicated student. "I'm quicksilver," he says. "I need stability. Everything else has shifted, but this school is stabilizing...
...year the APUs have killed 18 poachers under a shoot-to-kill order. Dozens of senior wildlife-department personnel have been interrogated, and some have been relieved of their duties. These measures seem to be working. In the past month not one fresh carcass has been found. "Everyone is keen as mustard," says Woodley, beaming. "We'll win for sure." It is too early, though, to declare victory. After a similar crackdown in 1978, the price of ivory soared and poaching resumed...
...sick idea came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...
...outcome of the tax debate will be of keen interest to the newest force in Japanese politics: women. As traditional keepers of the household ledgers, women felt the pinch of the consumption tax most acutely. In the recent election, that issue galvanized them not only to throw their votes to the Socialists but also to enter the political arena in record numbers. Female candidates increased their numbers in the upper house from 23 to 33; they now account for 13% of the chamber's seats. Half of those elected were Socialists like Doi. The J.S.P. leader, however, downplayed her role...
...English movies of the '80s had a team like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, David Lodge's funny, adroit Nice Work would make an ideal vehicle for them. The novel's protagonist, Vic Wilcox, is a gruff but keen-witted exec struggling to turn around a laggard steel-parts factory in Rummidge -- "an imaginary city," the author informs us, "which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world." Vic's antagonist (and here the term is literal) is Robyn Penrose, an attractive, rigorously feminist lecturer...