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...students often find separation harder to live with than abuse. Reason: fear of loneliness or of losing the status that comes from having a steady date. Tom, a 24-year-old student at a large Southwestern university, continued to date a hot-tempered classmate who, like a caricature of a wronged wife, regularly tossed plates at him and twice pushed him downstairs. Tom put up with such attacks for 22 months. "It was the first 'heavy' relationship I ever was involved in," he later explained. "You get so caught up in it you can't step...
That political involvement began when Gould, a native of Queens, New York--"way out in Archie Bunkerland," he says--went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the early sixties. Southwestern Ohio, adjacent to Kentucky, still bore the stamp of the South in those days. "When I went there," he says, "most things were still segregated--theaters, bowling alleys, some restaurants. It wasn't like the deep South; segregation wasn't legislated, it was just a matter of custom." So Gould joined with a group of other students to fight the customs, and won. "It was exhilarating...
...issue was Washington's increasing distance from its closest allies for failing to repudiate South Africa's boldest military venture since it committed troops to the Angolan civil war in 1975. For well over a week, an estimated 4,000 South African troops had ranged over southwestern Angola, seeking out new air defense systems said to have been set up to deter South African cross-border raids. After previous South African incursions, and subsequent calls for condemnation of South Africa at the U.N., the U.S. had abstained from chastising Pretoria and at least once joined a vote...
...object of Foster's uncertainty is a brown, peanut-size bean called the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah). Nearly a decade ago, researchers found that oil extracted from the beanlike seeds of the jojoba bush, which grows wild in the desert of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, could substitute for dwindling supplies of sperm whale...
...Christiansburg Christian School. Situated in a church basement in southwestern Virginia, Christiansburg Christian teaches all grades from kindergarten through twelve, although it has only seven faculty members (and just one of these has prior teaching experience). Total enrollment is 65 and the annual budget is a bare $110,000. The school's teaching is conducted with a package of self-study workbooks and tapes published by Accelerated Christian Education of Lewisville, Texas, a fast-growing company that markets start-a-school kits nationwide. The fee scale is complicated, but a basic initial A.C.E. charge is $950. Students work...