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Rebecca E. Wexler...
...DIED. SY WEXLER, 88, award-winning producer whose 16-mm, 10- to 30-minute-long educational films--with such sizzle-free titles as Teeth Are for Life, Why Physical Education and Venereal Disease: Why Do We Still Have It?--were a staple of baby boomers' classrooms in the 1950s and '60s; in Studio City, Calif...
...minor) in the choruses of ?Ain?t That Love,? ?Swanee River Rock? and ?That?s Enough? and the release of ?This Little Girl of Mine? and his dynamite cover of Sy Oliver?s ?Yes Indeed.? Listeners came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy sax solos by David ?Fathead? Newman. This was irrepressible, good-timey music, as if the early Charles had been absolved of sin and guilt and was finally permitted...
Most critics of e-voting have two complaints. One is that it's not possible to do a true recount with the systems because they produce nothing tangible when a vote is cast; a recount means pressing a button and coming up with the same results. Representative Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat, has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the sleek new systems bought by 15 counties--including those of hanging-chad fame like Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade--are unconstitutional because votes can't truly be retallied there, as they can in the rest of the state...
...many students harbor questions over the process’ health, mental and ethical risks. “I’m worried about the type of drugs they’re putting in your body and the effect they might have,” says Rebecca E. Wexler...