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...shrewd Washington Post column, Novelist Erica Jong (Fear of Flying), formerly a high priestess of sexual abandon, put the dilemma succinctly: "It's hard enough to find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan...
...Wanda: Quiz time, Ralph. Jacalyn Barnett is an attorney who recommends "highlighting the legal consequences of love." What do you suppose she is talking about...
...Quick quiz: where have you encountered this scenario before...
...year begins, thousands of high school students across the country will be answering these and similar questions as they tackle a new learning device that combines journalism, state-of-the-art computer technology and old-fashioned fun. Developed jointly by TIME and IBM, CoverMaker is a weekly current-events quiz drawn from the pages of the magazine and played on ) an IBM personal computer...
...schools in 45 states have signed up through the TIME Education Program. Each participating institution is sent an instruction manual and a diskette containing dozens of questions. Once a week a teacher or student simply makes a local telephone call and automatically receives, free of charge, the week's quiz. Students who score high and correctly answer the bonus history question are allowed to enter their names on a computerized national honor roll. In addition, highscoring schools will become eligible for a total of $10,000 in scholarship money provided by TIME...