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...some reformers have a more assertive agenda. "History makes some people feel good and other people feel bad," says Joyce King, a California curriculum commissioner who protested the "racial stereotyping" in one proposed textbook because it implied that black ghettos were "naturally crime-ridden and dirty. If you create a curriculum that lauds the achievements of one group and omits and distorts the achievements of another, it has an effect...
...class, the desire to escape a gut reputation has led the professor to put the course on hold while he rethinks the course material and prepares a textbook to be used in 1992. Indeed, Bussey Professor of Biology Otto T. Solbrig was so upset when Science B-38: "Plants and Biological Principles in Human Affairs," became a popular gut that he may take it out of the Core...
...growth in the second quarter of 1990, many economists argue that the current slowdown already merits the title of recession. The pessimists gained a measure of support last week from a Federal Reserve report that noted that economic growth "was slow or had slackened" in June and July. "The textbook definition of recession doesn't matter," says Donald Straszheim, chief economist for Merrill Lynch. "The economy is so weak that it looks like a recession to an awful lot of people." Declares Rose Marie Moore, who was recently laid off from a Massachusetts textile mill: "I'm nervous and scared...
...would be overly optimistic to hope that the global encirclement of Saddam will serve as a model for coping with future regional conflicts. The world response to the Kuwaiti crisis is a special case because the stakes -- oil -- are so high and because Saddam has played such a textbook villain. No such unanimity could be expected if, for example, India invaded Pakistan, Senegal made a move on Gambia, or Bolivia rumbled into Paraguay. In effect, this first test of the post-cold war security structure is a relatively simple one. But that is all the more reason why the forces...
...Coop's third-floor texbook department is overpriced and unattractive, and only the truly cultivated Coop-shopper can make textbook selection fun: When shopping for this semester's textbooks, walk around and pick out all the great books required for courses you're not taking. Buy them instead. You'll be much happier...