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Kopp does not seem worried. After all, she has already achieved what many thought impossible: the recruitment of some of the best college graduates to teach in some of the nation's neediest schools. Whether they live up to the high expectations set for them remains to be seen. But TFA seems to have , proved the enduring allure of teaching -- and of youthful altruism...
...joining TIME's bureau there in 1982. Morrow, who is based in New York City, has visited Israel six times in the past 2 1/2 years. He confesses to painfully divided sympathies: "The Israelis and the Palestinians," he says, "are a kind of moral-political double exposure, two universes set down in the same place...
...while the Administration was taking credit for nailing McBirney, it was attracting criticism for allowing yet another set of dealmakers to get rich. Last week Senate judiciary subcommittee chairman Howard Metzenbaum called on the government to tear up a deal made by M. Danny Wall, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, with Arizona insurance executive James Fail. In 1988 Wall allowed Fail to acquire 15 insolvent Texas S&Ls in exchange for $1,000 in cash and $70 million in borrowed money, and threw in $1.85 billion to cover the liabilities of the bankrupt thrifts. Fail...
Here too the sun's ultraviolet radiation plays a role, but apparently a different one. Many melanoma victims have had three or more episodes of severe sunburn and blistering, usually as children or teenagers. Those experiences seem to set off a still mysterious process that results in the development of melanomas years later, often on parts of the body seldom exposed to the sun. Some evidence also exists that heredity plays a more important role in melanoma than in other skin cancers...
Since 1947, the 1,000 Mohawks of the Kanesatake reserve near Oka have claimed land that the village wants to use to expand a golf course. The federal government in Ottawa rejected that claim in 1986, but the Mohawks demanded further negotiations and last March finally set up a blockade to prevent the extension...