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...No Comment A Heartbeat Away Vice President-elect Dan Quayle, ruminating on the meaning of Thanksgiving in a talk to schoolchildren: "I suppose three important things certainly come to my mind that we want to say thank you...

...Silver Lining Department Mayor Don Karnes of Nitro, West Virginia, commenting on the forced evacuation of more than 3,000 residents while a hazardous-waste-disposal crew blew up a tank of deadly hydrogen cyanide: "This is going to be the best thing that's happened for the Charleston Town Center and the Huntington Mall...

...For the Last-Minute Shopper Fox's Gem Shop in Seattle, Washington, offers a fourteen-karat gold peace emblem for $395...

...The first would be our family...

...More Good News The Monsanto Agricultural Company announced "a major achievement": Its scientists have genetically engineered a strain of cotton that will resist the company's own Roundup herbicide...

...Eat What You Owe While discussing Mexico's debt problems, reports The Wall Street Journal, President-elect Bush and Mexican President-elect Salinas dined on, among other delicacies, chocolate truffles dusted with twenty-four-karat gold...

...Gaitlin was taken into police custody after he asked officers to show him how their squad-car computer worked...

...Everyone is focusing on what went wrong...

...Poor Baby Captain Will C. Rogers III, commanding officer of the U.S.S...

...I Am Not a Dope Former President Richard M. Nixon says Dan Quayle is "a very different man from the intellectual midget who has been portrayed among the media...

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...The Lower Learning Texas education authorities ordered the Nacogdoches school district to desist from hanging bricks around students' necks—a mnemonic device school i officials were using to remind youngsters to bring pencils and supplies to class...

...Your family, my family—which is composed of an immediate family of a wife and three children, a larger family with grandparents and aunts and uncles...

...We all have our family, whichever that may be...

...The technology of doing education has not changed dramatically in several centuries, but there's a real possibility of having a dramatic change...

...Gene-Splicing Strikes Again Sharp Electronics (U.K...

...Now You Know Gary Langley, executive director of the Montana Mining Association, says advocates of wilderness preservation are "selfish, elitist landgrabbers who want to lock the majority of Montanans out of their public lands" and "social reformers who want to stop economic activity in Montana under the guise of protecting pretty mountains, woodpeckers, and grizzly bears...

...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...

...Foods People Eat According to the Nutrition Action Healthletter, Sara Lee's Light French Cheesecake has slightly more fat and calories per ounce than Sara Lee's Original Cream Cheesecake...

...Tiffany's in New York City has a pumpkin-shaped sterling-silver tureeh for $10,000...

...The caption proclaims, Anyone Can Be a Genius...

...One can imagine a world in which we become two or three times more efficient in the way we deliver educational services...

...The Higher Learning John P. Crecine, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, as quoted in The Georgia Tech Whistle...

...The demonstration showed he was wanted for a 1968 armed robbery...

...Computer tutors are just as effective as human tutors...

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...Best Not to Ask In Detroit, R.C...

...Vincennes, commenting (in the San Diego Union) on the downing of an Iranian airliner last July by his guided-missile cruiser: "We had a lot go right...

...Better Late Than Never The White House announced on November 1 that President Reagan had proclaimed October as "National AIDS awareness and prevention month...

...These people are going shopping...

...Start 'em Young The state of Florida has opened 1,000 acres of Camp Blanding, a National Guard installation near Jacksonville, for deer hunting by children between the ages of eight and fifteen...

...State game officials say the intent is to instill enthusiasm for hunting and to educate them," The New York Times reports...

...has been running ads on the sides of British double-decker buses that show Ronald Reagan's face topped by Albert Einstein's mane of white hair...