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...tried to keep voters informed on the major choices they face. In one extracurricular way, however, we're trying to boost political awareness among those who aren't yet ready to vote. For the second presidential election in a row, TIME is a chief sponsor of the National Student Parent Mock Election, $ designed to encourage youngsters to get involved in the political process. During the next few weeks, students around the country -- in grade schools, junior highs and high schools -- will be casting their votes on the candidates and major issues. Their ballots will be tabulated in a 90-minute...
...into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman or the brutal cop. And where once there was subtlety in popular art, now there is sensation. Traditional standards have given way to tribal impulses, which push Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers aside to make way for a dance of the seven veils...
...think 'Murphy Brown' is good," he said in agreeing with Quayle's criticism of the television show. "I don't like the idea that one would become a single parent out of choice, out of independence. This is glamorizing the role of a single parent as if you had the right to have a child without a father...
...latter, or did both come from a single, common ancestor species? There were arguments for both options -- until a team at the American Museum of Natural History applied PCR to the genetic material of the amber-clad termite. DNA doesn't lie: the cockroach is not the termite's parent after all, but only its sibling. Which says nothing about how to get rid of either...
...they included questions about contraception and sexual behavior. In 1990 an interagency task force proposed funding school-based clinics "in high-poverty areas with high rates of out-of-wedlock births." A White House official acknowledged that such a program could reduce teen pregnancy and the number of single-parent families, but the Administration feared being seen as "encouraging promiscuity" and worried that the plan could "cause political problems among groups that are opposed to birth control." At the same time, total public funding for contraceptive devices has declined by one-third over the past decade; after a steady decrease...