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- <title>
- May 31, 1993: From the Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 31, 1993 Dr. Death: Dr. Jack Kevorkian
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> It's that warm season when parents beam and promising students
- receive academic prizes. Our magazine and two cooperating corporations
- are pleased to join in the festivities again this spring. More
- than 800 students entered the annual TIME Education Program
- (TEP) contests, and the 12 winners received a total of $31,500
- in scholarships. In the high school essay contest, co-sponsored
- by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the grand prize
- went to Michele Host of Badger Union High, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
- She wrote a moving tribute to her mother, who taught her that
- "learning begins in the home, and with the family." Other star
- writers: Robert Farrell of Klein Forest High, Houston; Jackie
- Casper of Sheboygan County (Wisconsin) Christian High; and Sanam
- Lari of Tamalpais High, Mill Valley, California.
- </p>
- <p> In college-level writing, co-sponsored by Mobil Corp., top honors
- belong to Kelly Sissom of Jones County Junior College in Ellisville,
- Mississippi. The first-prize winner in TIME cover design was
- Helen Evans of C.W. Baker High, Baldwinsville, New York, and
- in political cartooning, Gregory Shewchuk of Centennial High,
- Ellicott City, Maryland.
- </p>
- <p> The contests are only one of the offerings TEP provides 150,000
- students at 3,500 high schools and 1,000 colleges. Marketing
- manager Lisa M. Quiroz says the idea is to "use the magazine
- to teach the week's events in an interesting fashion." Every
- Sunday night, three teachers meet in Mount Kisco, New York,
- usually over pizza, to read rush copies of the new TIME and
- complete a current-affairs guide. The guide is mailed out to
- history and social science teachers; students receive discount
- subscriptions to TIME.
- </p>
- <p> TEP's full-time staff of 26 also operates an annual current-affairs
- test and invites students to guess who the Man of the Year will
- be. Our programs, now in their 69th year, are designed to help
- students become savvier about the media and more proficient
- in their own use of the written word and images. Of course,
- if some students become TIME subscribers as part of the process,
- we don't mind. Teachers interested in learning more about TEP
- should call 1-800-882-0852.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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