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...having it all" (i.e., doing it all), so thoroughly exhausted from putting in a full day at work and then another full evening at home, that they dream nostalgically of the 1950s? Can they really be aching for the dull but dependable days when going to meetings meant the PTA or the Scouts, when business travel meant the car pool, when a budgetary crisis meant the furnace had broken? Is the feminist movement -- one of the great social revolutions of contemporary history -- truly dead? Or is it merely stalled and in need of a little consciousness raising...
...come home after work, look through the mail, fix dinner, do some gardening, and before you know it, I'm falling asleep in front of "L.A. Law." I throw dinner parties. I was sent a form letter to join the PTA, and I read it with interest...
Where were you on the night of March 23? Out dancing, perhaps, or attending a PTA meeting or just sitting at home watching L.A. Law? If so, you did not realize how close you came to disaster. While you were blissfully unaware of the danger, a huge asteroid whizzed past the earth, coming closer than any other such heavenly body seen in 52 years. If the giant clump of rock -- half a mile across by one estimate -- had hit the planet, it would have packed the wallop of thousands of H-bombs and possibly killed millions of people...
Whittle's plan to introduce commercial television into the classroom has sparked considerable controversy. "I think it's appalling and greedy," says Arnold Fege of the national PTA. Whittle counters that the venture will not only inform students about current events but also provide schools with valuable hardware to increase learning opportunities. "The equipment we install has enormous secondary benefits," he claims...
...today's classroom is a mirror of the crises that afflict the U.S. as a whole. Even the children of two-earner, middle-class couples can suffer from lack of attention, if only because neither Mom nor Dad has the time or energy to help with homework or attend PTA meetings...