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...disreputable stepchildren of TV journalism. The Big Three -- A Current Affair, Hard Copy and Inside Edition -- are scorned by mainstream journalists, dismissed by most critics, laughed at by many viewers. Yet when sensational crimes and celebrity scandals grab the nation's attention, these are the shows that do the spadework, uncover the dirt, get the scoops. Their style may be cheesy and their tactics dicey (including liberal use of the checkbook), but they are doing a lot of old-fashioned, roll-up-your-sleeves journalism. What's more, at a time when the network- magazine shows are not only embracing...
After years of lonely spadework, Gasior is finally getting some respect. Two powerful Democratic Congressmen, Jack Brooks of Texas and Charlie Rose of North Carolina, took her findings to the White House and Attorney General Janet Reno last month. Their goal: to press for a re-examination of U.S. business ties to Iraq and the role of the Justice Department in a possible cover-up. Last week at a Washington reception, the Cavallo Foundation honored Gasior with a $10,000 award for her "moral courage" and for her efforts to ! expose wrongdoing. Said Rose at the ceremony: "She is remarkable...
...rivals. Affluent Greek Americans who normally contribute heavily to their own have been holding back. "The Greek money is frozen," Tsongas concedes. With ! his frail treasury, his need to concentrate on New Hampshire and his lack of a national network, Tsongas has been unable to do much spadework outside New England. A victory in New Hampshire would solve his anonymity problem, but even that boost would leave him struggling desperately when the action moves to the South...
...classrooms described in the Bank Street report are rarely quiet, well- mannered showcases. Instead, they tend to be noisy, chaotic places where computers are used not so much to deliver instruction as to do the computational spadework for students engaged in practical, concrete tasks. The computer-friendly classes are busy publishing miniature newspapers, designing model cities, writing operas or gathering data on acid rain. Once the tasks have been set by the teacher, students are generally free to pursue them as they see fit. In these settings, knowledge tends to travel across the room like a rumor, as students, hearing...
Despite resistance, sociobiology has been absorbed into the scientific mainstream, and Wilson's spadework in the fields of entomology and island biogeography has passed rigorous peer review. His book On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979, and this year he shared the Crafoord Prize with population biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences administers the $240,000 award, established to recognize areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes...