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...Maryland social workers think that a welfare applicant with even minimal skills can get a job as a "day-care assistant or perhaps dog washer for a veterinarian." Child-care workers across America must be gnashing their canines at being equated with dog washers. Do these social workers really believe that taking care of children is a suitable occupation for a minimally educated person? Which job do applicants select more often--caring for children or washing dogs? If respect is a factor, I'd put my money on the latter. REBECCA J. COOPER New Harbor, Maine...
DIED. SIR FRANK WHITTLE, 89, engineer who in the 1930s developed the first jet engine for Britain, just as Hans J.P. von Ohain independently built one for Germany; in Columbia, Maryland...
...brothers took a semester off from college, packed a Hi8 camera and traveled to Costa Rica to record wildlife adventures. After graduation, Chris received a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for study abroad and expanded the project. Eventually the brothers took their footage to Leo Eaton, a producer at Maryland Public Television, who knew the Kratts were series worthy when his four-year-old son asked to watch their grainy, homemade films over and over...
...speak the language, had no background in the country or Russian culture and did not meet with any of the key figures in the campaign (except for occasional contact with Yeltsin's daughter) would ultimately have much impact. GREGORY GUROFF, Senior Associate Center for Post-Soviet Studies Chevy Chase, Maryland...
...WALL, FROM THE HEART: VOTIVE GRAFFITI AT GRACELAND On the 6-ft.-tall, 180-yd.-long limestone wall surrounding Graceland, visitors scrawl thousands of messages, usually in Magic Marker. Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, sketches parallels between two categories of pilgrims: visitors to Graceland and early Christian acolytes. "What was true of early sacred travel is true of Graceland today," he says. "People leave votive offerings behind and take away relics...