Word: teache
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...LORD'S WORK Construction began on upper Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892, but the Gothic structure's three elaborate stone towers remain unfinished. In 1980 master builders started to teach local youths the art of stone carving and hope to finish the job -- in about 60 years...
When foreign visitors come to American cities, their reaction is almost invariably astonishment, and sorrow, at what they see on the streets. America is a wealthy nation of conspicuous ideals, one that presumes to have something to teach infant democracies all around the world. By failing to act creatively, generously and mercifully on behalf of its most desperate citizens, a country loses more than its credibility; it weakens its character. After such a long and ambivalent search for answers to this problem, Americans should rejoice that there is at last an opportunity to act on the principles they so proudly...
...very model of modern Roman Catholic femininity: wife, mother and the first woman in Germany appointed to teach theology under church auspices. For good measure, Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a convert from Protestantism, the daughter of a West German President and the wife of a first cousin of Poland's Catholic Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary...
...school can have no more important function than to teach students how to make themselves clear. But by putting speed ahead of substance, the school creates false values. Racing against the clock is not an ideal way to organize one's thoughts or arrange one's words...
...test marks the first time in the field of mental health that non-M.D.s have been permitted to prescribe medication. Last week the American Psychological Association showed its confidence that the experiment will be a success by appointing a study group to explore university curriculum changes that would teach psychology students the art of prescribing...