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Such sentiments led some jurors to hold out for North's acquittal on all counts. But after one member led a "strong prayer" on the twelfth and final day of deliberation, the jury voted guilty on the last of three charges to which North had virtually confessed on the witness stand. As jury member Beverly Turner explained, "He was wrong, and he knew he was wrong...
...survey released last week by the New York-based Joint Council on Economic Education, which found that only one out of three high school students in its 41-state poll could define such basic concepts as profit and the law of supply and demand. The 8,205 eleventh- and twelfth-graders who took the 40-minute multiple-choice test correctly answered less than 40% of the 46 questions. Declared William Walstad, a co-author of the study: "Our schools are producing a nation of economic illiterates...
...Vincennes became alarmed, it and the U.S.S. Sides sent seven vaguely worded warnings on an emergency military frequency that the airliner could not receive. They also sent four challenges on a civilian distress channel, but they were not specifically directed at any particular aircraft. Finally, the Sides sent a twelfth message that the plane's crew could not have mistaken as meant for anyone else -- if they had been listening to the emergency channel. Just 40 seconds later, the Vincennes opened fire...
...serenely uneventful first act unfolds, spectators may find themselves daydreaming of moving to a village where everyone says hello and no one locks his door. But in the third and final act, as the shade of young Emily Webb returns from cemetery hill to re-experience her twelfth birthday, Wilder convincingly argues that what makes all life look enticing is the distance granted by memory or imagination. As lived moment to moment, he contends, human existence is mostly ritual, habit and numb unawareness. Rather than be wistful for the life that is no longer, or never was, we should...
...problem is not just large numbers of people who are insufficiently educated. Never before have the majority of American jobs placed so many demands on employees. To compete effectively, the average American worker today must employ skills at a ninth-to-twelfth-grade level, in contrast to the typical fourth-grade standard during World War II. "It's not that people are becoming less literate," points out Irwin Kirsch, a senior research psychologist working for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. "It's that we keep raising the standards...