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...class as a whole," explains Rutgers Education Professor Nobuo Shimahara. The Japanese make no effort to single out slow or gifted pupils for special classes. Nor are inadequate students held back; the shame is thought to be too great. But comprehensive exams given at the sixth, ninth and twelfth grades track the best scorers to the best schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooling for the Common Good | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...admittedly not the calendar one, was lost too. Still her grace in defeat was heroic, in contrast to the style of the defending men's champion and top seed Jimmy Connors, who fled in a fury after his fourth-round loss to a big server from South Africa, twelfth-seeded Kevin Curren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Martina's Turn at the Top | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...next female astronaut scheduled to fly is Judith Resnik, 34, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Akron, who has a seat next March on the twelfth shuttle mission, along with Ride's husband, Astronaut Steven Hawley, 31. But NASA'S new ecumenical-crew policy goes beyond women. A mission specialist on the next Challenger flight will be Air Force Lieut. Colonel Guion Bluford, 40, who will become the first black astronaut in space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Accomplished | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

...deaths-the eleventh and twelfth of foreign journalists in Central America since 1979, but the first in more than a year-sent alternating eddies of lament and reminiscence through the men's colleagues. At the Hotel Maya in Tegucigalpa, and at the Hotel Camino Real in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, some reporters halfheartedly second-guessed the fatal venture, as if to suggest it need not have happened. The road was known to be dangerous, they argued: two British journalists had been fired on in separate incidents in the previous few days; in his final week Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Treacherous Lure of a Story | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

News & World Report last month reported on WHO RUNS AMERICA. The first ten, as judged by "leaders in 29 fields," are Washington governmental figures, from Ronald Reagan down. In twelfth place came Rather, who doesn't make news (or laws) but just reports it. Even when the hype on the magazine's cover is reduced to the actual question posed inside -Which individuals exert "the most influence in national life?" - Rather's high place (much as Walter Cronkite's had before him) seems faintly ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: On Top and on Trial | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

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