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...doubt valuable as pure education, but this spring, they seemed to spark as much regression as progress. More disturbingly, such episodes make clearer than ever the depth of the trouble gays will inevitably have in fighting towards acceptance in society; what works for women or Blacks may contain unexpected pitfalls for gays. If a year of waging the battle for gay rights on an emotional front accomplishes more than temporary stalemate, it will be to make the straight community realize just how difficult the battle will...
...prayer uttered in the classroom will contain the love of an evening prayer with a parent. Teachers should not lead worship; ministers and parents should...
...effort to contain the damage, Haig delivered a conciliatory response to Costa Méndez. He rejected Argentina's demand for application of the 1947 Treaty of Rio, which calls upon the U.S. and 20 other signatories to come to each other's aid in the event of aggression from outside the hemisphere, on the ground that the first use of force in the Falklands crisis did not come from a non-American nation. A few days earlier, Haig had tried to patch up relations with Latin America by publicly calling upon Britain to be "magnanimous in victory...
...Dallas-based Texas Instruments, which pioneered low-cost talking computers with its Speak & Spell learning aid, last week unveiled Magic Wand, a machine that can read to children. It is disc-shaped like an LP record album. A youngster passes a wand attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year...
...Fathers) and his wife liana have decided to explore the far end of the genre. None of their selections requires more than eleven pages (D.H. Lawrence's A Sick Collier); some need four (Grace Paley's Wants). But the works are small only in measure. All contain social and psychological resonances that sound long after this remarkable book is closed. A few are comic, like James Thurber's If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox, a portrait of the crocked general handing over his sword to an astonished Lee. In two cases, stories provide a mirror effect...