Author suggests citizen action to coerce stations into broadening their format and serving a larger segment of the community. (SP)

Article lists a variety of interests and approaches to activities in hopes that the teacher will provide a situation where students can grow, learn, mature, and find satisfaction as individuals. (GB)

The stated objective is to teach the individual, but methods and materials are developed to teach classes. (Author)

The concept of rights as a conceptual entity, as a social phenomenon, and as a current in contemporary thought is discussed. (Author/CB)

The author discusses the process, procedure and accomplishment of bibliotherapy reading as a means to satisfy one's needs. (MF)

Details extensively the advantages and disadvantages of the individualized approach to reading instruction, suggests combination programs as a means of phasing in the individualized approach and indicates the need for highly competent teachers to handle the complexities. Includes a pro-reaction and a con-reaction paper. Bibliography. (WB)

Participants in assertiveness training groups who rated their degree of interest in improving their assertive skills in 26 areas indicated that being assertive when confronted with another's aggression was the highest priority, whereas saying no in various situations assumed a much lower priority. (Author)

From the negative remarks heard in many teachers' lounges, one might conclude that all teachers hate students, parents, and administrators. But these are usually only surface messages, the real purpose of such conversation being to let teachers entertain each other, blow off steam, think through difficulties, or ask for help. (SJL)

A study of 300 nonmanufacturing firms' current and projected preretirement programs indicated that (1) personnel departments have primary responsibility for existing programs, (2) focus is changing from financial planning to psychological counseling, and (3) such programs benefit the company as well as the employee. (SK)

Career development could become a fad unless current needs are met, goals are set, programs are properly designed, evaluated and revised, and mutual accommodation is accepted as its philosophical basis. (JOW)

Discusses food and food-related images, notions, values, and customs that have a unique and significant role in children's literature. (MKM)

In this study of 547 high school graduates, Alderfer's and Maslow's need hierarchy theories were expressed in Markov chain form and were subjected to empirical test. Both models were disconfirmed. Corroborative multiwave correlational analysis also failed to support the need hierarchy concept. (Author/IRT)

Widows were interviewed to investigate how they coped with the many facets of widowhood, including intimacy-sexuality loss. Availability of family and/or friends as a source of support was found to be most important for satisfactory coping. Sexual problems, expecially frustration, were evident among many widows. (Author)

Human subjects were required to interact with two different opponents in a gaming situation. Both opponents were actually simulated by a computer program for the purpose of demonstrating basic differences between communicative action (mediated by consensual understandings) and instrumental action, which is based on technical strategies. (JC)