Word: reporte
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When California announced in 1987 that it was establishing a state Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau satirized the idea as a flaky New Age fad. Now the all- volunteer task force has completed its report, and the sneers are turning to cheers. Among the group's sensible recommendations: offering parenting classes to high school students, requiring prospective teachers to take courses in self-esteem, and establishing peer support groups for people on welfare. Most important, the report urges changes in the juvenile-justice system to "attach a reasonable sanction...
...would it? According to a report in last week's Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
Last week the halo slipped. According to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, oat bran has no special power to reduce cholesterol levels. In fact, it works no better than low-fiber grains and causes more bloating and diarrhea than some. In a study performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues randomly switched 20 healthy men and women between two six-week diets: one contained 100 grams of oat bran daily, the other 100 grams of low-fiber wheat. Cholesterol levels dropped an average 7.5% -- no matter the diet...
...Bush has no patience for those who accuse him of stinting on public education. As he told Governors last fall, the U.S. "lavishes unsurpassed resources" on schooling. Last week that claim was strongly challenged by the Economic Policy Institute (E.P.I.), a Washington-based think tank. In a 29- page report based on data published by the Federal Government and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the institute concludes that the U.S. spends relatively less on elementary and secondary education than 13 other industrialized countries, including Japan, West Germany, France and the Netherlands...
Deale said he suspects that University officials are reconsidering the Young Report because they realize that it violates state laws...