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...parliament, known as the People's Chamber, then approved the Communist Party's nomination of Politburo member Hans Modrow to lead a new government as premier. The government traditionally has been subservient to the party...
...state claims that Cambridge violated a regulation requiring community water systems to notify the public if the level of a contaminant known as trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water exceeds a certain level...
Modrow is a well-known reformer within the party, which has been led by Egon Krenz since October 18. Krenz has promised some reforms, including free elections...
...fact is that nothing has changed since the spring, except for the degree of student enthusiasm about the issue. The statistics are well-known by now: only 6.3 percent of the University's senior faculty are women; 6.2 percent are minorities. And for tenure-track junior faculty, the statistics are not much better: 16.9 percent are women, 8.6 percent are minorities...
Resisting the temptation to turn their child into an early overachiever, a surprising number of parents are consciously delaying their youngster's entrance to kindergarten even when age eligible. This is known, quaintly, as redshirting, after the common university practice of keeping athletes out of games to allow them an extra year of playing eligibility. To some teachers, redshirting children is necessary because all too many kindergartens are more concerned with academics than with the emotional and physical development of youngsters. To others, the practice is not much better than coddling...