Word: taught
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...want to be 10 again and those who want to lock up 10-year-olds in the pen--is that childhood is not just a triumph of miniaturization. Kids really are different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss so much about--the one separating a fetus from a human being...
...statement is unlikely to influence the curriculum of Catholic schools, where evolution has been taught since the 1950s. Indeed, reading the entire Bible literally has not been a dominant practice among Catholics through much of the 20th century. Asked about the Pope's statement, Father Peter Stravinskas, editor of the 1991 Catholic Encyclopedia, said, "It's essentially what Augustine was writing. He tells us that we should not interpret Genesis literally, and that it is poetic and theological language...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "As an Alaskan Native I was...taught that you don't just look at the next generation, but the next and the next and the next generation after that...
Losing to Republican incumbent Nancy Johnson in 1994 didn't discourage Koskoff; in fact, she says the defeat taught her what she needs to know to win this time. But that strategy seems to have centered on scrutinizing Johnson's role in the Ethics Committee's investigation of Newt Gingrich. In response to accusations that she's waging a single-issue campaign, Koskoff says she supports increased funding for Head Start and ensuring a community-college education for everyone...
Wexler is traditionally liberal in many ways: he favors the assault-weapons ban and opposes school prayer and the balanced-budget amendment. However, in his past three years as a state Senator he proposed that chastity and sobriety be taught in public schools and that rapists have their sex drives chemically lowered on the second offense and to allow judges to impose a death sentence on the third--though he has altered his position and now calls for tough sentences instead...