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...most intractable aspect of the crisis is that it is largely voluntary. Entranced by images of the wealth and power of the First World, the young turn away from their elders, breaking an ancient but fragile chain of oral traditions. For the elders, it is difficult to persuade an ambitious young native that he is better off hunting boar with blowpipes than reaching for the fruits of "civilization," even if those fruits might translate into a menial job in a teeming city. For the well-fed, well-educated visiting scientist to make that argument can seem both hypocritical and condescending...
...AIDS prevention are most effective will be impossible without more complete knowledge of the attitudes and behavior of young people. But that information may be hard to come by. Last month the Bush Administration blocked a comprehensive survey of adolescent sexual practices after critics charged that its questions about oral and anal sex were too explicit for children. Others greeted the cancellation with outrage. "We have a terrible deficit of knowledge about sexual behavior as a whole in this country," says Dr. Hook. "We don't know if youngsters in low-risk areas are just not having...
...songs. It also inspired University of North Carolina researchers to design a five-year, $18 million survey of 24,000 youngsters in grades 7 through 11 to determine teen attitudes toward sex in the '90s. The study, ranging from the tame (hand holding) to the torrid (sodomy and oral sex), won funding from the National Institutes of Health in May. But last week Secretary of Health Louis Sullivan abruptly canceled the study because he feared it would contradict his stand against casual...
Education Department officials say they have never envisioned a single national test, but rather a varied package. According to Dr. Lauren Resnick of the University of Pittsburgh, who has done seminal work in this area, these might include oral projects, portfolios in which students display a body of work completed over time, open-ended questions to explore student thinking, writing samples and perhaps some multiple choice. These would be part of a complicated web of standards that would be calibrated first at the state level, then among states and regions and, finally, nationally. Just how this uniform grading would...
...vote that stirred the most notice was the tie-breaking yea cast by David Souter, the court's newest Justice. Pro-choice advocates had earlier been encouraged by Souter's sharp questioning of U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr during oral arguments in the Rust case last fall. "The physician cannot perform a normal professional responsibility," Souter had said. "You are telling us ((that the government)) in effect may preclude professional speech." Yet last week Souter concurred in a majority opinion based on that very reasoning. Since the ruling did not directly address the question of a woman's right...