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...number of schools, sex education turns out to be nothing more than a brief bout with a safely biological "swimming sperm and Fallopian tube" course that has put students to sleep for generations. Or, hardly more energizing, it may be a three-hour course taught by a gym teacher, followed by a display of condoms or foam brought along by a speaker from Planned Parenthood. In Kansas, the curriculums for phys ed, drivers' ed and sex ed are all overseen by the same state board of education official. "No matter what is written in the curriculum, there is not much...
Does this mean all 6000 of us have to trudge back to Mem Hall soon for another bout with the camera? Nope, according to Maureen Granfield of the Term Bill Office. She says there is "no way" of that happening. Folks in Holyoke Center say any students with particularly low embossments can come in and use the i.d. office's own machines to get new cards. The rest of us will just have to make...
That study, designed by Burroughs Wellcome Co. in collaboration with medical specialists and AIDS experts, began in February and was scheduled to end in December; it involved 282 subjects. Some were victims of AIDS who during the previous four months had also suffered their first bout of PCP. The remaining subjects had ARC (AIDS-related complex); although they were infected with the AIDS virus, their symptoms were not as severe as those of full-blown AIDS. Each patient took a capsule every four hours. For slightly more than half the group, those capsules contained AZT. For the control group...
...hear tell that they're throwin' a birthday party for the Statue of Liberty, which has been around 'bout as long as my book, so I sort of feel it's my party too. A hundred years now that statue has said to folks all the way from Europe, and even France, that when they came to America they were not alone. But I think they knew they were alone. Everyone who escapes to freedom has to come alone, 'cause you are makin' your way from home, no matter how unfree home may be. You got to decide for yerself...
This Rocky of the teen-age wasteland has spent his life avoiding the bout of the social arena, not just out of fear, but because he doesn't believe in its reward. "It's all so superficial," he proclaims with annoying insistence. So Lucas seems destined to remain a loner, capturing bugs for the school terrarium. But then, the inevitable happens. Lucas falls in love. As a dubious knight in shining armor, Lucas must fight for his fair maiden in the dread land of superficiality...