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...Miami-Dade Community College, which helped create the PBS introductory course in psychology, 1,000 students are learning by screen. Faculty members conduct optional review sessions on campus, produce extra exams and evaluate student work by phone or letter. Burlington County College, located on the rim of the pine Barrens in southern New Jersey, has 24 students taking the PBS Shakespeare course. Their assignment includes reading two comedies, two tragedies and two historical dramas and watching six televised performances (from the Shakespeare series co-produced by BBC-TV and Time-Life Television). The midterm and final can be submitted...
...President Nixon banned any U.S. production of biological weapons. Within the past two years, the Army has been granted $23 million for a factory in Pine Bluff, Ark., to manufacture "binary" chemical weapons, in which components of nerve gas are loaded separately into artillery shells and become lethal only upon explosion. Ronald Reagan, however, has yet to authorize production...
There are three North Carolinas. The coastal east runs flat and sandy; the Blue Ridge west rises velvety and mountainous. Most populous is the middle Piedmont, a plateau of gentle undulations and pine forests. Scotch-Irish settlers swept onto the Piedmont in 1736. Six years later, two Helms brothers, George and Tillman, were farming on a plot deep in the colony. Before long, there were Helmses all over the place. On the solitary road from Wadesboro to Charlotte, just as the piny hills begin puckering up, grew Union County and the town of Monroe...
...white, prayed daily), Helms seems to have lived one gamboling, summery pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines in peril...
...motorcycle escort. Those who want a more stylish send-off can choose a top-of-the-line bronze casket for $3,682.25, much cheaper than the private equivalent sold for $8,900. For the truly cost conscious there is also a no-frills, Boot Hill model-a stark pine box covered with gray cloth...