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Martin also plans to extend the "new pathways" educational method, which is a case-based system, into the third- and fourth-year curriculum, when students move to hospital rotations...
...last, a sensible, unbiased article about spanking [BEHAVIOR, Aug. 25]! It is refreshing to see someone concede what informed parents have known all along: that spanking in and of itself is not abuse when done properly. Rather, this method of discipline serves to let the child know that his or her actions have consequences other than "Now don't do that again, Johnny," which goes in one ear and out the other. Undisciplined children grow up to be undisciplined young adults without concern for the rights of others. Those who fell for the New Age philosophy against spanking...
Many schools use upperclass students this way. But Harvard has characteristically chosen this more expensive method to care for its young, the argument being that older, more experienced adults have more to offer-both in wisdom and in safety-to novice Harvardians...
...system he saw Frelimo use in Mozambique, organizing the population into a hierarchy of governmental committees to which members were elected as individuals, not party members. The U.S. accepted it when Museveni called this system an indigenous democracy, even when he won the presidency in 1996 by the same method of no-party elections. But last month Southwick blasted new legislation institutionalizing the system as "the functional equivalent of a one-party state." He is worried that the economically liberal President is moving toward political authoritarianism, making him "a bit dangerous" as a regional model...
...face the camera can't stop watching. When she shows up in She's So Lovely to hear Penn murmur, "You're a very beautiful woman, and I haven't been around the kindness of women in some time," it's a sweet tribute from this generation of Method mesmerizers to the one who taught them...