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But it is not an easy one. What should children be told, and when? Clearly there are no absolute rules. Variations depend on how each child is maturing, even where a family lives. Children from rural backgrounds, particularly farms, are more in tune with sex and reproductive cycles than their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Much Do They Know? | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

Needless to say, wine, liquor and tobacco were prohibited in undergraduate rooms, and kegs were absolutely not allowed in bathtubs. Furthermore, any schollar caught playing Crazy Eights or Double Solitaire or throwing dice with his chambermate could expect to add five shilling to Harvard's endowment. Get caught a second...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Wear Thy Cloake, and Cut Thy Hair Go Ye Not to Harvard Square | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

Ralph: I found her TV ad very tasteful indeed, Wanda. Great photography and a real slice of life as it is undoubtedly lived in the Zaccaro household, at least when all those accountants aren't cluttering up the place. Here we are, sharing a typical moment of televised intimacy between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Pitching Motherhood and Pepsi | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

So it was with some bemusement last week that the Washington press corps learned that Buchanan had been named White House director of communications, with responsibility for selling his friends in the Administration to his friends in the media. The appointment was a concession to Reagan's right-wing supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: House Critic | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

The English Parliament was not the only grinch. In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 a penal offense; Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans were given a five-shilling fine for "observing any such day as Christmas."

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Only 15 Days Until . . . | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

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