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Ribicoff's plan would allow parents of college students to subtract a maximum of $325 from the income tax. The credit would amount to 75 per cent of the first $200 paid for an education, 25 per cent of the next $300, and 10 per cent of the next $1,000. The credits to very well-healed parents would be less -- reduced $1 for every $100 earned in excess of $25,000 a year. This means that anyone making more than $57,500 annually would be ineligible...
Johnny doesn't add very well. According to results of a major survey of math instruction in twelve nations* released last week, the U.S. is startlingly remiss in teaching its children how to add, subtract or solve calculus problems. Despite U.S. prestige as the world's leading technological power, American 13-year-olds ranked a low eleventh in their understanding of math-outscoring only children from Sweden, and lagging well behind those from Japan...
When newsmen quickly noted that a withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops was no guarantee that violence would subside as long as the Viet Cong were around, a U.S. briefing officer argued: "The North Vietnamese have always provided the cutting edge for the Viet Cong. Subtract them from the picture and Saigon could handle the situation by itself." If not, highly mobile U.S. troops could make a swift return. Actually, the point was inserted more for bargaining than anything else. "This isn't much of a timetable," an Australian diplomat conceded, "and Gromyko will see the weak spots...
...Population 427. Twenty-seven bars, a defunct weighing machine, zinc-roofed cinema. Waves, weed. Potatoes on the uplands, drizzle on dry days. Decaying bachelors and young Helens with church medals pinned to their bodices, eyes down and kicking shins under dusty dining-room tables. We add, we subtract, we do the nine Fridays and the wind blows the seaweed onto the barbed wire...
Give Your Child a Superior Mind is sold with the promise that if carefully followed, it will help a child "read 150 words a minute, add, subtract, multiply and divide, understand fractions and simple algebra, even handle abstract concepts and interpret them creatively"-all before he is five. It was written by Siegfried Engelmann, a research associate at the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, and his wife Therese, a psychologist. They argue unconvincingly that such intellectual giants as Goethe, Leibnitz, Mill and Macaulay benefited less from genes than from early teaching, conclude that parents...