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Bluntly stated, boys do well by being bad. They are the troublemakers who intimidate girls into silence, monopolize discussions and steal an inordinate amount of teachers' attention. One sixth-grader observed by researchers in Montgomery County, Md., said, "I'm afraid, when I get something wrong, the boys in the classroom might make fun of me because they usually laugh at some people if they get something wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is School Unfair to Girls? | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Ernestine Brown, a developmental psychologist, chose to remain in a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., rather than join the Harvard faculty as a junior professor...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Afro-Am, Psych Scholar Nixes Offer | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...George Bush wander a few miles from the Oval Office or the womb of Air Force One, and he is apt to go native in search of the great American middle class. He has been sighted in a Frederick, Md., JCPenney store buying socks and recorded in New Hampshire's political precincts slanging from the stump about frogs without wings and liberals jumping on an unspecified part of his anatomy. Last week he uncovered a cache of supermarket checkout gear at the Orlando convention of the National Grocers Association. The pampered and protected President was dazzled. Supermarket habitues have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Time for Some Decorum | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

Gallico says that the technique is being used all around the world, from Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Md., to Shriners Burn Institutes in Galveston, Tx. and Cincinnati, Oh., to Hanover, Germany...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Harvard Doctors Reproduce Skin Cells for Grafting | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

KENTLANDS, MD. "They don't make 'em like they used to" has become an all- purpose kvetch when confronted by the shoddy and the dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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