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...could be more intimate?--poses a sequence of haunting questions that ascend to the metaphysical. The womb is a very small apartment, and overcrowding creates the sort of triage dilemmas that doctors face on battlefields. Which one of the babies is one too many? The third? The fifth? The eighth? And since nature does not number the fetuses, how does one assign them priority in the event that "selective reduction" becomes the choice...
...provide. About betrayal, the diverse ways in which people use and abuse the confidence of others who trust them, Dante possessed an encyclopedic knowledge and an unforgiving eye. He consigned history's fraudulent figures, including those who gave bad counsel or who spread scandal, to various folds in his eighth circle of hell. The only lower and more hideously painful depth was the ninth circle, the place Dante reserved for those who went beyond personal betrayal into public treachery...
Some teachers have risked greater confrontation. A Florida woman who teaches social studies to high school seniors is currently in a lawsuit against her school board, seeking the right to use without restrictions an even more contemporary book: The Starr Report. In Rhode Island last June eighth-grade English teacher Brian Cabral was verbally attacked by his principal over a vulgarity in Go Ask Alice, a 1971 novel dealing with drug addiction. The principal conceded he had not read the whole book, which tends to be the case in most book challenges, and Cabral was ultimately cleared in a committee...
...lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team player and a public servant," says Duhon, who 10 years ago enraged some parents when she used adult novels from a list by the National Council of Teachers...
...three designed their proposal last winter and presented it to the school-district superintendent in May. Within three months, the district had approved it. This fall, the triumphant triumvirate filed for nonprofit status and formed a board of directors. The board appointed Liz Anderson, an eighth-grade teacher and hockey coach, as executive director. Anderson, 27, is technically young enough to be the Woods' granddaughter. "From the first time they met, Liz and Denise have been clicking," says Kennett Middle School principal John Carr...