Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very thought of being able to read the entire genetic message, and perhaps alter it, is alarming to those who fear the knowledge could create many moral and ethical problems. Does genetic testing constitute an invasion of privacy, for example, and could it lead to more abortions and to discrimination against the "genetically unfit"? Should someone destined to be stricken with a deadly genetic disease be told about his fate, especially if no cure is yet available? Does it demean humans to have the very essence of their lives reduced to strings of letters in a computer data bank? Should...
Their mother says the children used few "formal" textbooks, but instead read novels and instruction manuals. Their favorite books include Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, The Double Helix by James Watson and Homer's Iliad...
...months passed. The unopened books began to spread over my floor like cactus roots thirsting for water. The only mail I received were overdue book notices. In one day I received five cards from Lamont. One read, "For Shame...
...Mirror's pages read like a chapter from Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence. In this place of punishment, achievement is possible and highly promoted. The newsmakers in a fall edition of the Mirror were Karta Singh and the other bonsai-club members, who practically blew away the civilian competition at the Minnesota State Fair. "I'm ecstatic about it," Singh told the Mirror. "Winning a blue ribbon motivates me even more, and I think it's a testament to the quality of instruction we're getting...
...biggest change was an end to all the bad news. The Mirror's readers will not read about gang rape, booze brewed in a toilet or how a man in C cellblock took a dive from the gym rafters and landed on a broom. Not even an obit for a lifer who died of natural causes. "It's bad enough just being in here," Taliaferro says...