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...argue in court. Bar officials in California, concerned about this and the low pass rates achieved by minorities there (about 30% for blacks and 40% for Hispanics, vs. 70% for whites), have considered conducting an experiment: having bar applicants take various innovative tests, including a quiz on a mock arbitration proceeding recorded on video tape. Whatever they are, new legal wrinkles developed in California tend to have wide impact; the state has about a fifth of the nation's student lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Questioning the Bar Exams | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...biologists have identified 27 kinds of parthenogenetic lizards-all-female species that lay eggs to produce exact genetic copies of the mother. On field trips in Arizona and Colorado, a team of researchers headed by Psychobiologist David Crews found that four of these species engage in mock male-female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Leapin' Lizards! | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation: the psychobiologist does not yet know why the females mock the male-female behavior of related two-sex species. The eggs hatch with or without the lesbian courtship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Leapin' Lizards! | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...known winter resort by their wives, resumed the warm, almost joshing relationship of previous meetings. When Begin gallantly made a dinner toast to Sadat's wife Jehan ("To our dear lady, or perhaps I should say our beautiful lady") his Egyptian host, amid roars of laughter, responded with mock jealousy: "Begin, be careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Troubled Summit at Aswan | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...apartment heated. She also kept writing, encouraged by a couple of musicians around the studio like Keyboard Player Ralph Schuckett, who helped her with musical structure, co-produced her first album and now shares a brownstone in Brooklyn with her. In Heroes of Yesterday, there are echoes of the mock-Wagnerian melodramas produced by Phil Spector for '60s girl groups such as the Crystals and the Ronettes, but Shipley's lyrics try to go deeper, attempt to capture the ebbing of a lost childhood ("Born too late, born too late . . ."). With a little luck, however, Shipley may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chick Singers Need Not Apply | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

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