Word: parenting
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...possible. The Greek word klon means twig, and the simplest kind of vegetable cloning consists of cultivating cuttings from a plant. By the mid-1950s scientists had succeeded in cloning amphibians, producing frogs that were genetically identical to each other and carried the inherited characteristics of only a single parent. Most animal cloning has been done by transplanting nuclei into egg cells to produce an entire organism from a single cell. But the cloning of higher forms of life, like mammals, is hard to achieve. Mammal eggs are microscopic, ten to 20 times smaller in diameter than frogs' eggs...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, school book review committee did not make a big splash when it voted, 21 to 1, to ban One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-in response to one parent's objection to some of the language. It was not much bigger news when Anaheim, Calif., school officials authorized a list of approved books that effectively banned many previously studied books, including Richard Wright's classic Black Boy. And who recalls the Kanawha, Iowa, school board's banning The Grapes of Wrath because some scenes involved prostitutes...
...child-parent pattern of the Reagan family, Ron's decision to marry suddenly with barely a last-minute word to his folks is perfectly traditional. It is widely known that Ron's parents have not managed to see a single ballet performance of their son, who is clearly very good, having been selected to the Joffrey second company, and is their son nonetheless. Ron talks of his parents with much affection. But these absences are strange and go back a ways...
...year, compared with the $10,000 to $25,000 offered by the public schools. But there are few complaints. "The curriculum here is much more difficult," says Third-Grade Teacher Barbara Urban, 27. "Nobody is allowed to slack or goof off." Boasts Teacher Stephanie Love: "I have parent volunteers to help me grade papers and to tutor the children who need special work...
Barbara Ciampa received $2500 from the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) program, which went into effect January...