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...educators are increasingly realizing, America's tunnel vision towards that one timespan has cost it dearly. Colleges across the nation are reporting illiteracy and academic incompetence to be so high among high school graduates that at least one school, the University of Texas at Austin, has begun matching many "no go" 18-year-olds back for tune-up math work. The dismaying caliber of the nation's pre-freshmen has spawned two curriculum reform proposals that promise a return to the days when high school grads could be counted on to do simple arithmetic and read had signs...
...silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white checkered tablecloths; the hoe-down amenities seem almost too perky to bear. In one dim passageway leading to an Illinois cellblock, some wry convict has painted a skillful trompe l'oeil escape route, railroad tracks disappearing into a tunnel and freedom...
Kelly's death marked the third fatality on the Red Line project since it began in 1979 Last August, a tunnel caved in near Porter Square, killing a construction worker. Approximately 18 months ago, a worker was killed when the acctyline torch he was using blew up near Davis Square in Somerville. Neither of these workers was employed by the Perini Corporation...
...based on transcendence of the rational Intuition becomes dominant. The stock-broker who bases his transactions on the I-Chungn is an example of this. Then comes the subtle level, which is an intensification of transcendence. At this level, the individual can begin to see the end of the tunnel, the golden road to unlimited devotion. At the last stage, the causal level, the individual becomes the end of the road. He is at one with the universe. He is a unity with nature. Nothing passes...
...Reagan formally endorsed constitutional amendment to allow voluntary school prayer. The President's Bible Belt supporters were plainly ecstatic. Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell exulted. "After 20 years of the expulsion of Almighty God from the public schools of our nation. I think this is the light of the tunnel we have all hoped and worked and prayed...