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...afternoon ceremony, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will cut the ribbon to open the Adaptive Technology Lab for Students with Disabilities, which will provide special support for students with visual or manual impairments...
...deeper change, according to Penelope Leach, author of the popular parenting manual Your Baby and Child, stems from the Industrial Revolution, which forced a split between the home and the workplace. "Home and its surrounding community used to be everybody's operating base, with work and play and family pretty much intermixed," she says. "Now work has moved into geographically separate production centers and takes the form of specialized jobs that cannot be shared, swapped or carried on with a baby strapped to your back." Home has been left an impoverished place, little more than a dormitory, a spot...
...most ambitious efforts to reconstruct family life is at Logos School, a private academy outside St. Louis that was founded two decades ago for troubled teens. Strict rules governing both school and extracurricular life are laid out for parents in a 158-page manual. Families are required to have dinner together every night, and parents are expected to keep their children out of establishments or events, say local hangouts or rock concerts, where drugs are known to be sold. Parents must also impose punishments when curfews and other rules are broken. Says Lynn, whose daughter Sara enrolled at Logos...
Someone like Henry Rosovsky doesn't read a book like The University: An Owner's Manual--he writes...
...this a pattern of demagogy of the sort Louisiana has specialized in from Huey Long's time to that of Edwin Edwards. But Huey Long did not claim, as Duke does, to be a serious author writing on the environment and other subjects -- even, once, a sex manual -- under various pseudonyms. Ben C. Toledano, one of the founders of modern Republicanism in Louisiana, sees nothing of Huey in Duke. "My family has lived in New Orleans for 265 years -- a long time for Americans, and I don't see anything Southern in Duke. You drop him in Iowa, or anywhere...