Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change in official doctrine. Three years after sex education became mandatory in schools, barely any instructors are qualified to teach it. Those assigned to do so are often too embarrassed even to use animals to illustrate their points. Instead, they talk about sexual reproduction in plants or avoid the topic altogether. The effect is that many schools essentially have no sex education at all. Though that is mostly the result of sheer backwardness, some of the delay also stems from active opposition. Just as in the U.S., those against sex education have accused its proponents of conspiring to undermine...
...garden became a topic of debate when Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 filed a gender discrimination complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) in 1987. Schkolnick has argued that thefinal club is connected to Harvard because itcares for the College's portion of the garden...
When Christopher W. Cowell '92 went to the first meeting of his computer science class, he could not understand the teaching fellow. But the problem was not the topic--it was the section leader's English...
...Remember, however weak your own background, the students know even less," the memo stated. " 'That sounds like a good paper topic' is a good answer to questions raised on more specific/detailed points that you don't or can't get into and one you can use repeatedly to humorous effect...
Fried refers to a book by University ofMaryland professor James Moore as an example ofhow abortion has always been an unsavory topic inthe United States...