Word: taught
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...measure took effect two years ago, some 700 schools and community groups in 48 states have snapped up the funds, according to a study by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS). Five states have gone a step further, mandating that abstinence-only programs be taught in all their schools. The programs vary widely, but the federal funds require that children be taught the "harmful psychological and physical effects" of premarital sex. Contraceptives, if mentioned at all, must be cast as unreliable in preventing pregnancy and disease. Explains Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative...
David and Linda had grown up together in Chicago, and he had never given up on her. They kept in touch while David lived in Montana, and throughout the 1970s, as he taught high school English in Iowa, wrote an unpublished novel and drove a commuter bus near Chicago. But Linda eventually married another man. Faced with this reality, David slipped off to the wilderness--interestingly, not to Ted's Montana mountain area but to the Big Bend desert region of western Texas. He had $40,000 in savings and, like Ted, a vague plan to spend the rest...
...Their days of contemplating pitches and passing out cotton candy have taught them a great deal about the world of baseballoand even more about the snacks they hawk. FM, eager for the inside scoop, invited Chris and Sean for a walk through the Square to taste-test ballpark-esque offerings for those days when the Yard is closer than the Park...
...been a member of the research staff at the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge's Kendall Square since 1991, has team-taught a Harvard first-year seminar, "Physicists and Scientific Problems," with another McKay professor of applied physics, Jene A. Golovchenko, for the last five years...
...just before she was fatally shot last April 20. The question may have been put instead to VALEEN SCHNURR, 18, who lay wounded under another table. She replied yes, she says. As the gunman reloaded, he asked, "Why?" "Because I do believe, and my mom and dad taught me to." The gunman then walked away. Witnesses may have confused Cassie's and Valeen's voices...