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...method of its passage was less than inspiring, the enactment of the Brady gun-control bill still put a fitting capstone on an unusually solid record of congressional accomplishment. For seven years, its passage had been blocked, as pro- and anti-gun-control forces angrily debated, drafted and redrafted its language. That it finally got through signaled that the 103rd Congress was serious about breaking gridlock in its own ranks and with the White House...
Another student questioned the method by which the audit was being conducted:by weight of the food wasted. "A potato wouldcount the same as a piece of chicken," he said...
Most teachers now prefer the bilingual method. Says Winnie Porter, a bilingual teacher at the Cesar Chavez Elementary School in San Francisco: "It's very simple. You teach children in the language they think in; then they understand the concepts. Once they understand the concepts, they can transfer these skills to a second language. I know it works. I've been doing it for 10 years and see the results." But many communities cannot afford or attract qualified bilingual teachers in all -- or any -- of the subjects students may need. Says Gloria McDonell, director of the Fairfax County E.S.L. program...
...better time than now for the Interhouse Facebook project to get underway. Production of the facebook will be easier than ever before because of the new computer imaging system used to create Harvard ID's. The system will facilitate the printing process and help alleviate the current costly method of printing facebooks. In addition, large-scale production will make individual house contributions toward financing the facebook much cheaper...
...this any way to found an objective science? Freud's defenders argue that his personal life is irrelevant to his contributions to learning -- a rather odd contention, given Freud's statement that his development of the analytic method began with his pioneering analysis of himself. Nevertheless, Arnold Richards, editor of the American Psychoanalytic Association newsletter, dismisses any attention paid to Freud's private conduct: "It has no scientific practical consequence. It's not relevant to Freud's theory or practice...