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Christmas used to be a time for stuffed animals, toy wagons and Barbie dolls. In the 1990s, however, Barbie has her own CD-ROM and Santa is more likely to send a naughty child the STONED virus than a lump of clay...
When the G.O.P. stormed the House in 1994, 10-term veteran Goodling was rewarded with the chair of the Educational Opportunities Committee. From there he proposed lump-sum grants for states to administer their own school programs and opposed "opportunity-to-learn" standards in President Clinton's Goals 2000: Educate America Act. He hopes his new prominence in Congress will mean votes for him at home...
...about. In a group which is supposed to deal primarily with issues of sexuality and drug abuse, the range of related issues can be surprisingly large. One woman wants to talk with her semi-estranged mother. Another wants to go to a doctor's office to have a suspicious lump examined, but can't because she fears what she'll find out. These and other details all emerge as the members of the group take turns discussing their behaviors, goals and obstacles...
Despite its height, climbing up Mt. Harvard is hardly a death-defying experience. "It's an undistinguished lump on a fairly undistinguished range; it just happens to be very high," says John C. Reed of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver. Reed, who has climbed the mountain once, describes it only as "a long walk" of about three or four miles...
...embracing answer as to whether it will work. The central themes of the about-to-be law are clear enough. There will be no more guarantee of a federal check to poor people for as long as they may need it. Instead, Washington will make block, or lump-sum, grants for each state to distribute to the poor (along with some state funds) under guidelines intended to prod state and local authorities to prod the clients into finding jobs: generally a two-year limit on payments for any one stretch of time, and five years' lifetime for those who drift...