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...classmate, is understandable, but it is not supported by medical evidence. Last week the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta issued a report aimed at providing authoritative guidance to schools and parents. The CDC found that "based on current evidence, casual person-to-person contact as would occur among schoolchildren appears to pose no risk . . . (Most of) these children should be allowed to attend school and after-school day-care . . . in an unrestricted setting." Indeed, there are no known instances of a child with AIDS infecting his parents or siblings. The report did caution that preschool-age children and those...
...state legislature naming the Huron Ave. Bridge after Russell. The former mayor is credited with pushing for the restoration of the bridge, which now connects a section of Russell's West Cambridge neighborhood with the rest of the city. Russell had opened the bridge, surrounded by dozens of schoolchildren, just two weeks before he passed away...
DIED. James A. Dewar, 88, Continental Baking Co. vice president who retired in 1972 and who in 1930 invented the celebrated Hostess Twinkie, a sponge cake filled with sweet cream, beloved of schoolchildren and bewailed by nutritionists, that with 40 billion sold has become the nation's favorite snack cake; in Downers Grove, Ill. To critics, Dewar said, "I fed them to my four kids. Twinkies never hurt them...
...public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that "it borders on paranoia to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of Rome lurking behind programs that are just as vital to the nation's schoolchildren as textbooks...
...Blacks. In addition to being one of the initial signatories to the Sullivan Principles and maintaining the highest rating. Dutton says, IBM has made several other efforts to improve opportunities for Blacks, such as a 10 year, $5 million program kicked off this April to combat illiteracy among Black schoolchildren. "We too believe apartheid is reprehensible. It's just that we feel we're a force for positive change in South Africa [and can] help bring about social and political equality," Dutton says...