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...PTST illustrates the general principle of prime-time teaching: use the screen to get students' attention, then engage their intelligence with questions, study guides and sometimes scripts read as homework. Thereafter, Archie Bunker's layoff from his job on the loading dock can be used to prompt a class discussion of unemployment. An arrest by Starsky and Hutch helps illustrate constitutional guarantees like that of a suspect's right to counsel. The approach is being applied by different companies in slightly different ways. The CBS Television Reading Program helps student TV watchers to sharpen their logic...
...warheads now on our recommended 31 boats down to one warhead per missle, 16 tubes per boat, for a total of 496 warheads. This is an adequate deterrent. It would still guarantee about 40 equivalent megatons delivered-more than a third of Soviet industry at once, with the probably prompt death of 15 to 20 million people. We say nothing of the raging fires, the confire mated lands, the burned and injured, the epidemic of tumors, the dearth of food and fuel and shelter in the winter to come, the scattered lable of the nation. Ample deterrent...
...week's end, Washington recognized Bazargan's new provisional government. The prompt way in which Khomeini forces came to the aid of the embattled embassy reassured the Carter Administration that Bazargan and the Ayatullah want to build friendly relations with the U.S. Washington was also impressed by the new government's help in arranging the airlift of the 5,000 to 7,000 Americans left in Iran. The U.S. had hoped that two chartered Pan Am jets could handle the exodus. In case of a real emergency, Washington had secured the permission of Turkey to allow...
...limitation of offensive strategic arms is drawing to a close, although it will obviously take some more time for the positions to be finally agreed. We trust that the principle of equality and equal security, which the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. recognize as the starting point, will prompt correct decisions and that President Carter and I will be able in the near future to affix our signatures to the accord. The task set by life itself ?to put an end to the unrestrained arms race, to ensure security for our nations and to consolidate international peace at a lower...
...cost and trauma of traditional surgical cures, or simply embarrassed, most sufferers medicate themselves. Popular over-the-counter preparations can indeed relieve some symptoms temporarily. So can hot baths and a change in diet and bowel habits. But doctors emphasize that whenever rectal bleeding occurs, there should be a prompt proctological examination; while hemorrhoids themselves are not life-threatening, such bleeding may be a sign of cancer or some other serious ailment. Happily, most hemorrhoid complaints can now be treated simply and almost painlessly in the doctor's office...