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...tour of the pen. Though there are 13 scheduled tours a day, come gale, fog or high water, tickets for weekends and holidays are sold out a month in advance. Tourists include some of the Indians who occupied Alcatraz in 1970, penologists, historians, police officers, prison wardens, troops of schoolchildren and an occasional former inmate (one ex-con insisted on getting married there, so that his wife would understand what he had been through...
...begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child and to enable administrators to plan for continuous instruction. Faced with similar suits by LaFleur, another Cleveland teacher and a teacher from Chesterfield County, Va., the court concluded that, while health and instructional continuity...
...tranquilize prisoners or inmates of mental hospitals, and tame those whose behavior or ideas society finds troubling. They note that psychosurgery is being widely used in Japan to calm down hyperactive children. They also observe with alarm the tendency of some school physicians to recommend drug treatment for these schoolchildren. Others, on a more philosophical level, are concerned lest the neurosciences succeed in erasing the factitious Line between "mind" and "brain" and reduce man to a collection of neurons...
...schoolchildren of Anderson, Ind., have been advised by state health officials to go soak their heads -and in hot water, at that. By way of inducement, they got an extra 2½ days of Christmas holiday time. The city's entire system of 27 elementary and eight junior-high and high schools was shut down to combat a rampaging epidemic of a malady that is never fatal and seldom serious, but severely discomforting infestation with head lice...
...well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan's top ten hits. Its title: My Boy Friend Is a Lefty...