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...Honduran sources or travel the four hours to Las Trojes to interview refugees from the border fighting. Some check in regularly at the U.S. embassy, a heavily guarded building on a hill overlooking downtown Tegucigalpa, but officials there are generally wary of the press. "This region is the kindergarten of overseas journalism," complains a veteran officer. "A lot of the people working in this area are young and committed and out to crucify U.S. policy to advance their careers. They don't care about ground rules or anything. So I am less open than I would like...
...uses Hallmark's popular Rainbow Brite character and a coloring-book format to lay out a simple daily-workout plan. About 1.5 million copies of the book have been distributed through family physicians and educators. By far the most comprehensive teaching effort is Know Your Body. Devised for kindergarten through junior high by the American Health Foundation, it uses workbooks, skits and rhymes to handle such topics as choosing "heart- healthy" foods and resisting the bad habits of peers. In addition, youngsters get individual "health passports" on which they can record annual figures for height, weight, blood pressure and blood...
...court that a federal law prohibiting discrimination against the handicapped protects people with AIDS. The first came only two weeks ago, when a judge in California ordered the Atascadero school district to readmit Ryan Thomas, 5, who had contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been banned from his kindergarten class after biting another child in a scuffle. While the law in question applies only to federal agencies or recipients of funds from Washington, federal-court rulings often influence the decisions of state courts and private employers...
...Kids are aware of human sexuality at an earlier age than we give them credit for. They are three years old when they want to know where babies come from." And they can understand simple, descriptive answers. Says Sharon Shilling, a Denver sex-education expert: "When they come into kindergarten, they generally have a knowledge of body parts, and they know about basic bodily functions...
Many communities, of course, have outstanding programs, including Arlington, Va., Baltimore, and Irvington, N.J. Teaching can be impressively broad, running from kindergarten through twelfth grade and based on developmental psychology, emphasizing assertiveness training, the mechanics of decision making and assigned essays on topics like sex in the media...