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Many teachers feel overwhelmed by classroom chaos. Last month the CPS started using metal detectors in the schools. "Kids are just more aggressive now," says teacher Arthur Leahr. "You're always nervous because you wonder if the kid might have a gun." The union says teachers started to lose control in 1988, when the district abolished corporal punishment while directing administrators to reduce suspensions. "Before long, the students were running the schools," complains Tom Mooney, Don's brother and president of the Cincinnati teachers' union...
...Rapids, Michigan. "All the good reasons why it was proposed are going to come back tenfold as negatives on the black community -- and on the black intellectual community specifically." Pilgrim, who is black, calls the claims of the extremists "pseudoscience" and "reverse Jensenism," referring to the controversial theories of Arthur Jensen, who argued that blacks were genetically less intelligent on average than whites...
...genetic material comes from one of several hundred bodies, mummified by natural forces, that were unearthed in 1989 and 1990 by University of Chicago anthropologists from the cemeteries of Chiribaya, an agricultural community along the coast of what is now southern Peru. Pathologist Arthur Aufderheide of the University of Minnesota, who autopsied the mummies, was intrigued by one woman he judged to have been 40 to 45 years old, an advanced age for her society. But he expected to find little else remarkable because the body was so poorly preserved. To his surprise, when he opened the chest, he found...
...DIRECTOR: Arthur Hochstein...
...ARTHUR KENT...