Word: texts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promising results in various experimental programs. Techniques devised by Ann Brown and Annemarie Palincsar, while doing education research at the University of Illinois, raised reading-comprehension , scores in a Springfield seventh-grade class from 20% to 80% in 20 days. The method was to make the children approach a text the way a teacher does: by formulating questions, summarizing, predicting what will come next and isolating problems...
...year's splashiest example of the drama of the abstruse. Minamata takes its name from a Japanese fishing village that was afflicted with industrially caused mercury poisoning, and many of the show's powerful images derived from W. Eugene Smith's documentary photographs, published in 1972 by LIFE. The text explores how modern society distances those who cause a disaster from those who suffer the effects. But it is also about -- to the extent that the hallucinatory stream of consciousness can be said to be "about" anything -- transvestism, multinational corporations, military buildups, Hostess cupcakes and rape of every variety...
Before Hansen could deliver his testimony, however, his text was amended by officials at the Office of Management and Budget, who routinely review statements made to Congress by members of the Administration. OMB staffers inserted a disclaimer stating that scientific projections of the impact of global warming were merely "estimates" and "not reliable predictions." To Hansen, the effect of the change was to water down his testimony. When he appeared before a Senate subcommittee, he handed out the OMB-revised written testimony, but then gave his own uncensored views of the dangers of global warming...
...hope my inference is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this...
Wolff, who called the text of Kennedy's letter"disingenuous and condescending," said he does notmind both sides campaigning openly, but added thatUniversity officials should remain neutral, asthey traditionally have...