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...University makes some resources available to teaching fellows to help them learn how to run sections and grade papers. The Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning holds orientation lectures at the begining of each semester for new teaching fellows, the Core program publishes a "how to" manual for TFs, and there are free videotaping and consulting resources for those graduate students who want other teachers to critique their performance...
Except when Helms is doting on his six grandchildren, he rarely relaxes. He types as many as 50 letters a week to friends and constituents, pecking with two fingers on an old Royal manual. To a woman fretting over her mother's ill health, Helms wrote that his own mother had believed in the curative powers of baked apples. In another letter he wrote of the gay-rights movement: "I view it as something of a nightmare that the Sodomites are so brazen . . . These obnoxious, repulsive people are anything...
...cameras are full of advanced engineering. Like many popular "point- and-click" models, each boasts functions that used to require manual operation but are now automatic: exposure control, focus, flash, loading, winding and film-speed setting. To these have been added some new twists, including infrared beams for focusing in the dark, automatic exposure compensation for subjects that are lit from behind, and a built-in zoom lens for wide-angle and telephoto shots with a flash unit smart enough to narrow or widen its beams accordingly. The zoom lens of the Chinon Genesis is hand operated; in the Yashica...
Called Mutual Sharing, Mutual Caring, a sex-education manual for New Hampshire teenagers has too much mutuality for the state's conservative establishment. The booklet discusses topics ranging from reproductive functions to rape, pregnancy and homosexuality. "Gay and lesbian adolescents are perfectly normal and their sexual attraction to members of the same sex is healthy," says the manual...
Politicians from Governor John Sununu on down have lined up to denounce the manual and block its distribution. Says Strafford County Commissioner Paul Dumont: "We let those guys out of the closet ten years ago. I think we should put them back in." He and his fellow commissioners voted to freeze spending for the county's Prenatal Family Planning Clinic, which paid for the development of the manual during three years of work by community groups, schools and youth organizations...