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...Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman who is a cross between a Zen Buddhist and Winnie the Pooh," says Michael Farris, president of the Virginia-based Home School Legal Defense Association, which tracks developments across the country...
...A.M.A. predictably has pooh-poohed the A.C.P. statement. Says Dr. Raymond Scalettar, an A.M.A. trustee: "It contributes very little to the * debate. The American health-care system needs to be improved, but it works." That reaction may say as much about medical politics as about medical policy. Until recently the A.M.A. dominated the field. Now it is being challenged. Says Ball: "Other medical groups still believe in the politics of the past. That's when medicine could demand its way. The politics of the present and the future is when medicine and other elements of society sit down equally...
...local Pooh-Bahs of Washington share a consensus in favor of statehood for the capital. Congressional Democrats nominally support creation of "New Columbia," which would have two seats in the Senate and one in the House, all certain to be filled by Democrats. But Republican opposition and the district's propensity for comic-opera government keep statehood low on the agenda...
...Bennett, the Pooh-Bah of drug interdiction...
...manager Tony LaRussa properly pooh-poohed the A's 8-1 record against the Giants during spring training and professed concern about the Sock Exchange. Giants manager Roger Craig, ever the optimist, pointed out that "we've got ; men who respond to challenge. We've battled back all year long." But as the series opened last Saturday, hard-eyed bookmakers in Reno made the A's odds-on favorites to win the Battle...