Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knotty education issue, but many Governors are still waiting to see whether the President will make the tough choices necessary to establish education as a genuine priority. Some wonder, for example, why he retains the so far ineffectual Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary. They also wonder why a self-proclaimed education President would propose, in effect, to cut federal education spending $400 million, adjusted for inflation...
Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...
...Indian view of life. Nature is alive. The barest Antarctic rock is crawling with microbes. Viruses float on the dust. Bacteria help digest our food for us. According to modern evolutionary biology, our very cells are cities of formerly independent organisms. On the molecular level, the distinction between self and nonself disappears in a blur of semipermeable membranes. Nature goes on within and without us. It wafts through us like a breeze through a screened porch. On the biological level, the world is a seamless continuum of energy and information passing back and forth, a vast complicated network of exchange...
...Delaney, such haphazard self-medication posed its own threats. "We said, 'Instead of just passing it out to see what happens, let's channel it into controlled clinical use,' " Delaney recalls. He contacted James Corti, a Los Angeles-based activist and importer of AIDS drugs who shipped 400 doses of Compound Q out of China...
Aloni said she hoped Palestinians would ultimately win self- determination and political freedom, a combination conservative Israelis have opposed. "You give a minority autonomy in additon to political rights, not instead of them...