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...banning of literary works is nothing new. It happened in the soviet Union, it happened in Nazi Germany, it happens in just about any regime striving to impose one ideology upon its people. And while it is over sensationalizing to compare the banning of books to totalitarian regimes, what is happening in West Chester schools - and countless other high schools and elementary schools around the country - is an insidious threat to the very ideals on which this nation was founded...
...tasteful?) presentation of the story of the destruction of Europe's Jews, the Holocaust Memorial dedicates an entire section to the consideration of America's ambiguous response to these horrid events. The Memorial does not attempt to white-wash the callousness with which the FDR administration responded to the Nazi genocide...
...Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his pioneering work on hormones; in Munich. Beginning in 1929, Butenandt isolated a number of previously unknown sex hormones, including progesterone, which maintains pregnancy. The knowledge of hormonal structure gained from this research made possible the development of the birth-control pill. A Nazi law forced Butenandt to decline his Nobel Prize, which he finally received in 1949. After the war, he helped rebuild Germany's scientific community as head of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. DIED. THOMAS MAYNE, 93, Australian industrial chemist who invented the Milo chocolate malt drink that is a staple...
...Hamblin, a hot-button black conservative, on "the Nazi point of view" comment that cost Christina Jeffrey a Capitol Hill job: "Being a bigot does not void your First Amendment rights." The self-styled "Black Avenger," who is syndicated to 63 stations nationwide, has also railed against gun control and even against James Brady -- "the cripple guy" -- for promoting...
...professor Christina Jeffrey, quickly became a footnote to history when her controversial evaluation of a 1980s Holocaust education program surfaced, triggering a gleeful fusillade of criticism from Democrats. In 1986, Jeffrey had written that the junior high school program in question contained "no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan." Moving quickly to avoid a prolonged, Clintonian embarrassment, Gingrich fired the professor the same day the evaluation came to light, though an assistant of Jeffrey's claimed...