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...controversial chief of staff fancies himself as the real science expert in the White House (although the job of science adviser officially belongs to another conservative scientist, D. Allan Bromley). Unfortunately, this means the administration opposes many global environmental protections...
...seated prejudice. "It's based on the assumption that all homosexuals are sex maniacs and somehow incapable of acting maturely," says Joe Steffan, a star student who resigned from the Naval Academy in 1987 two weeks before final exams, after his superiors heard that he was gay. According to Allan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire, 100,000 to 200,000 of the 2 million members of the U.S. armed forces are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Most elude detection by being discreet. "The question is not, 'What happens if we let gays in the military?' " says Berube. "At least...
...general store in the town of Elroy (pop. 1,596), 80 miles north of Madison, Wis. Farmers and railroaders would congregate there to talk about the weather, argue about politics, share their views on life. One bit of philosophy that young Tommy picked up from his father Allan was that "if you wanted anything, you worked...
...could easily get an earful. "I'm frustrated," says Dr. Sherman Elias, director of the division of reproductive genetics at the University of Tennessee. "We're mad," says Dr. Carol Kurz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at a Los Angeles hospital. "The Bush Administration has overstepped its bounds," says Dr. Allan Rosenfield, dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. "And medicine is strongly and unanimously opposed...
Coltoff's observation is being echoed in every region of the country. Allan Bloom decried The Closing of the American Mind in his 1987 best seller, referring largely to college students. But in the two-to-six age group, American minds are rapidly dilating. So is the interest in early-childhood education -- ECE to the trade. "This is a wonderful time to be in the field," says Sara Wilford, director of the Early Childhood Center at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. "Interest in ECE has never been more intense...