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- <text id=92TT0979>
- <title>
- May 04, 1992: Society:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 04, 1992 Why Roe v. Wade Is Already Moot
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- SOCIETY
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> G-MEN OF COLOR
- </p>
- <p> Under J. Edgar Hoover, FBI agents often served as shock
- troops in the fight against civil rights. Last week the bureau
- announced a plan to end what 300 of its black agents had charged
- was lingering bias in the way promotions and fast-track
- assignments are made. The new rules avert a threatened lawsuit.
- </p>
- <p> BAD GRADE
- </p>
- <p> Channel One, a classroom newscast produced by Whittle
- Communications, has drawn fire for mixing commercials with
- current events. A Whittle-funded study has found that with or
- without ads, the show isn't having much impact. Students who
- watch the newscast score little better on current-events tests
- than do nonwatchers.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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