Schools cling to Shakespeare as lit canon excludes women and minorities
A SUNY Albany survey of 322 public, 80 Catholic, and 86 private high schools shows 84 percent assign Romeo and Juliet and 81 percent Macbeth, with To Kill a Mockingbird the only female-authored top ten. Minority authors appear in only two top picks.
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New York
Center For the Learning & Teaching of Literature
State University of New York At Albany
Shakespeare
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Golding
Lormainne Hansberry
Richard Wright
Applebee
Allan Bloom
E.D. Hirsch
Macbeth
The
Center For the Learning and
US Department of Education
National Endowment For the Arts
Skaggs to Sell 12 Stores Outside Texas
Richardson Texas AP Skaggs Alpha Beta Inc agrees to sell 12 food and drug stores outside Texas to Acadia Markets Corp of Little Rock Arkansas for an undisclosed price. Stores in Arkansas Kansas and Oklahoma include Little Rock Jonesboro Fort Smith Wichita Salina Enid. Acadia plans no consolidation or layoffs for acquired staff.
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Richardson, Texas
Skaggs Alpha Beta Inc
Texas
Acadia Markets Corp
Little Rock
Ark
Skaggs
Acadia
Safeway
Jonesboro
Fort Smith
Wichita
Salina
Kan
Enid
Oklo
Dennis Telzrow
Eppler, Guerin & Turner
Dallas
Salt Lake City
KCPL refunds excess fuel costs to Kansas customers
The Kansas Corporation Commission approved an agreement with Kansas City Power and Light Co. to return 1.3 million dollars in excess fuel costs to customers. Residential, commercial, and industrial customers get 900,000 dollars as a June 1989 bill credit, while 400,000 dollars lowers base rates effective July 1, 1989, yielding roughly 4.40 dollars in annual savings per typical customer. The plan also extends KCPL’s rate-moratorium from January 1, 1990 to July 1, 1991 following an investigation into outages at Wolf Creek Generating Station from 1987 September to 1988 February.
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Topeka, Kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas City Power and Light Co
Kansas
KCPL
KCC
Wolf Creek
State employees win money for innovative ideas
Gov Mike Hayden honored two state workers for suggestions under the State Employee Suggestion Award Program. Judy Bales of Sawyer from the Department of Social Rehabilitation Services won 2500 dollars for a mailbox feature to cut travel costs for transporting youths, saving an estimated 30000 dollars first year. Hudene Correll of Liberal, a motor carrier inspector with the Kansas Highway Patrol, earned 1000 dollars for a combined form to replace seven permits, cutting paperwork and saving 13000 dollars.
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Topeka
Kan
Mike Hayden
Judy Bales
Sawyer
Department of Social Rehabilitation Services
Hudene Correll
Liberal
Kansas Highway Patrol
Bales
SRS
Correll
Kansas Corporation Commission
Department of Revenue
Military Medical School Offers Free Tuition and Rank
A nationwide appeal details a four year medical school program at the F Edward Hebert School of Medicine in Bethesda providing free tuition and full pay. Participants will be commissioned officers and must serve seven years in the armed forces after graduation. The program emphasizes emergency trauma medicine with opportunities to study abroad.
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U.S
U.S. Department of Defense
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Army
Navy
Air Force
U.S. Public Health Service
Bethesda
Australia
London
Africa
Side effects of Macrodantin and Parkinson’s timing
Reader questions about drug side effects and when to treat Parkinson’s. Dr Donohue explains nitrofurantoin risks with long use, nerve numbness from possible carpal tunnel, and that dreams or tension may mimic stroke signs. Early levodopa use in Parkinson’s is now common when daily living is affected.
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N.C
Donohue
J.N
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