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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1997
Page
2
Ellen Goodman reflects on the Louise Woodward trial and the broader conflict of working versus stay-at-home mothers. She notes class bias among callers and media coverage, contrasting two ideal mother images while urging empathy over blame.
UC San Diego researchers report that temporal lobe activity may heighten response to religious words in epilepsy patients. The team presented findings at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, stressing this does not reduce religion to brain chemistry but highlights involved brain areas.
President Clinton urged public schools to halt social promotion and expand aggressive interventions to hold failing students to high standards. He backed Chicago’s pilot testing and backsliding of promotees, and directed the Education Department to help other districts copy the approach amid a dispute with Republicans over voluntary nationwide tests.
A Cambridge jury begins deliberations on whether 19 year old English au pair Louise Woodward murdered an 8 month old, with prosecutors portraying her as a promising actress who lied about harming the boy and defense arguing insufficient evidence of murder. The panel is instructed to consider only first or second degree murder.
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