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...Hopkinton, I started off joined by a class of schoolchildren that was walking the first half on Monday and the rest on Tuesday. They wore flourescent orange bibs and their teacher shouted out final instructions, "Single file, stay together, don't leave the group...
...completely out of touch -- or heavily sedated -- all last week not to have got the word. Bulletins were broadcast hourly from TV and radio stations around the world. Warnings were issued by the FBI, by London's Scotland Yard and by Japan's international trade ministry. Schoolchildren carried home notes from concerned teachers. Computer owners queued up at software outlets, their brows creased in anxious frowns...
...replaced by Revelation. Instead of Rational Law, objective truths perceptible to any who will undergo the necessary intellectual discipline, Knowledge will degenerate into a riot of subjective visions . . . Whole cosmogonies will be created out of some forgotten personal resentment, complete epics written in private languages, the daubs of schoolchildren ranked above the greatest masterpieces. Idealism will be replaced by Materialism. Life after death will be an eternal dinner party where all the guests are 20 years old . . . Justice will be replaced by Pity as the cardinal human virtue, and all fear of retribution will vanish . . . The New Aristocracy will consist...
...same token, great changes have taken place in the versions of American history taught to schoolchildren. The past 10 years have brought enormous and hard-won gains in accuracy, proportion and sensitivity in the textbook treatment of American minorities, whether Asian, Native, black or ^ Hispanic. But this is not enough for some extremists, who take the view that only blacks can write the history of slavery, only Indians that of pre- European America, and so forth...
Plenty, according to Vyacheslav Tabolin, a Russian authority on pediatrics. He fears a major health crisis is looming for today's undernourished children, because their parents and grandparents suffered from malnutrition. Health officials estimate that only 8.5% of schoolchildren in the first to tenth grades are of a height, weight and build normal for their...