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...quite now or never, but certainly now-or-a-lot-later for Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat. President Clinton held talks with the Israeli leader in Portugal Thursday, hoping to jump-start the stalled Israeli-Palestinian track of the Middle East peace process. Both sides had previously committed themselves to concluding a final agreement by September, but that looks increasingly difficult as major differences remain unresolved: over how much of the West Bank Israel will cede to an eventual Palestinian state; over the status of East Jerusalem; over the future of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees that Israel...
...challenged or impaired in some way--are probably not like those of your childhood. To help you find out if you suit the new classrooms, particularly those in inner cities, Martin Haberman, distinguished professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has developed an interview process that 50 school districts use to select effective teachers. You can take a written version of the test at home...
...sometimes baffling license requirements. Says the University of Missouri's Michael Podgursky: "I don't know of any other profession that has such a bewildering set of regulations, which lack coherence and have such complexity." Ken Gibson, a former geophysicist who teaches physics at Chamblee High, found the process of obtaining certification "demeaning." Though he has a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's in geophysics and plenty of engineering experience, he had to "jump through hoops," gaining certification only after two years of teaching and three years of education courses at various institutions...
...adds that it is important that all this complexity be a product of a slow, painstaking process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible...
...report is compiled is something of a black art to folks outside HHS, but the process is fairly simple. Investigators from the government's National Toxicology Program ask scientists around the country to submit "nominees" for the list. The feds then review the candidates to determine which indeed deserve to be considered carcinogenic and where on the list they belong. Getting dropped from the list works the same way, except that the push for removal may come from industry groups eager to redeem what they consider a wrongly condemned substance. Saccharin's exoneration, for instance, was championed by the Calorie...