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...defined by the ability to deal with the cataclysmic effects of technology, then we should name religionists and philosophers. We are in the middle of a massive paradigm shift, and we should not get so busy naming trees that we neglect the whole forest. ENID P. STERN Sandy Spring, Md...
Linda and Ron Raspet of Kensington, Md., have a 10- year-old daughter who lives up to her name of Sunny. Self-assured, well-spoken and home schooled, she has not watched TV on any regular basis since Sesame Street at the age of two. The Raspets read Endangered Minds and came to the same conclusion as the author. "After we read the book, we realized that even Sesame Street wasn't good for a child," says Linda Raspet. "It is rather schizophrenic, and we didn't want our daughter's mind to be programmed like that. That is when...
...Baltimore, Md., he is shelling out $25 million to set up an office of his Open Society Institute to see if there is synergy to be gained from applying many of his different programs in one place. "I'm sure, whatever he focuses on, it will help," says Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. "It will have to be well targeted, because $25 million is both a lot and a little. A lot if you focus on a limited number of problems; a little if you try and go after all the problems of urban America...
...tithe from its members. The IRS might find out what happens to church members who fall short of the 10%: privileges and positions are withheld; there is no admission to any temple; and they cannot reach the top rank of the three levels of heaven. TRACY A. BREEDING Denton, Md...
DIED. DUKE ZEIBERT, 86, affable restaurateur who, for more than four decades, ran Washington's favorite power-lunch spot; in Bethesda, Md...