Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probably the toughest question about sex education is whether it should be straight information or have moral direction. "Adults sure have different goals," observed one New York teen-ager in a recent survey. "They don't look at sex education as teaching us to understand sex. They look at it as a way of controlling our morals." And a lot of them do. Says Anaheim School Superintendent Paul Cook: "As soon as you start to lecture the kids, they turn you off. They just won't listen to people telling them what to do. We try to just...
...easy to understand why Walter Günther was nearly everyone's No. 1 choice to become West Berlin's next minister of health. A war veteran who had lost parts of both legs, he had risen through the ranks to a key position in the Social Democratic Party. More to the point, he was regarded as a first-rate doctor who ran a model geriatrics clinic; under him, in 13 years, the clinic's "cured and released" ratio rose from a dismal 3% to 33%. Patients were devoted to the charming German Czech...
...true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...
...know is I don't have any reasons to kill anyone, and I'm the one who has to have them in order to do it. I can't be pushed or bullied into a war I don't understand...
...establishment," says a young graduate of the First Engineer Brigade. "I put on the military uniform, cap and boots for the first time in my life, and right away I felt a pleasant tension within myself." Says another: "The importance of being constantly polite and alert is easy to understand, but so hard to practice. That is one vital lesson I have learned." Such comments are particularly convincing to Japanese executives. To them, Taiken Nyutai training, brief as it is, seems sorely needed. "Japanese youth today," says one, "look like bamboo without a joint...