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...personal experience, as in Art Spiegelman's Maus, about his father's internment in Nazi concentration camps. Others, such as Chester Brown's Louis Riel, about a mystical agitator in 19th century Canada, create novelized versions of the lives of historical characters. Rick Geary has become something of a specialist in historical comix, producing half a dozen hardcover books as a series titled "A Treasury of Victorian Murder." The latest fascinating contribution, arriving in August from NBM, is The Murder of Abraham Lincoln...
...voucher idea is nothing if not controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
...Soviet agent in the batch was Ronald Pelton, 44, a communications specialist for the National Security Agency for 14 years. He allegedly began selling secrets to Moscow shortly after his retirement in 1979. His total estimated payment...
Officials attribute the growing number of spy arrests both to an increase in espionage and to stepped-up counterintelligence efforts by the FBI and CIA (see box). The most spectacular catch came last summer with the arrest of John Walker, a retired Navy communications specialist who sold secrets to the Soviets for 17 years with the help of his son Michael, 23, his brother Arthur and, allegedly, his friend Jerry Whitworth...
...country receives a thorough grounding in reproductive biology and by age ten or twelve has been introduced to the various types of contraceptives. "Teachers are expected to deal with the subject whenever it becomes relevant, irrespective of the subject they are teaching," says Annika Strandell, the board's specialist in sex education. "The idea is to dedramatize and demystify sex so that familiarity will make the child less likely to fall prey to unwanted pregnancy and venereal disease...