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Longtime SftP member Michael Teel, formerly an instructor in a course called "Science and Society" at U-Mass at Amherst and presently a labor organizer there, also insists that it is the AAAS that has changed. There is a new consciousness beginning to take root, he says, the result of Vietnam, Watergate, and the persistent efforts of groups like the SftP...
...exactly certain at this time why the course was dropped, but several of the former teachers of the journalism section surmise that at the root of the problem is the misleading title of the course and the attitude towards it which Meislin expressed. Some of the committee members unfamiliarity with the course content and confusion about its title--journalism--bears out this assumption. Harvard has always frowned upon offering courses in applied arts, and Robbins says he feels that this attitude may be at the root of the decision to eliminate what appears to some to be a training ground...
...endorses the traditional Republican position that the Government should meddle less in the affairs of the citizenry. Carter wants to make federal programs more efficient and "compassionate"?a favorite word in his political lexicon. He vows one of his first missions in the White House would be to root out Washington's "horrible bureaucratic mess" by reducing some 1,900 federal agencies to about 200. Just how he would accomplish this wonder he has not said...
...came running, and she was standing there laughing." During shooting of the film's last scene, the pie throwing ran amuck and the kids let fly at everyone. The two hardest-hit were Jodie and John Cassisi, whose impersonation of the blustering, bossy Fat Sam had taken strong root...
Boston is not alone. Farmers' markets are sprouting in downtown areas all across the U.S. In recent years the markets have taken root in such disparate cities as Louisville, Syracuse, Santa Fe, N. Mex., and Honolulu. This year alone, farmers have opened new beachheads in Pittsburgh, San Jose, Calif., and Birmingham, among other cities. At the Greenmarket, a lot on Manhattan's East Side, 18 jovial farmers and their families roll their trucks in from upstate before dawn and roll out past dark with sales of as much as $16,000 worth of produce in their pockets...