Shows how adolescent literature has expanded to include numerous works that teenagers can use to understand their problems. Shows cycles in political climate, selection of manuscripts, and censorship. Things showing constancy are views of leaders in the field, the juvenile series, and the wide range of quality of the books. (EL)

Assesses the news consensus on specific stories that appeared on the front three pages of a random sample of American daily newspapers for a composite publication week. Reports that there is little consensus among editors as to what constitutes the day's important news. (FL)

Reports that sports editors believe that sportswriting is getting better and that less "cheerleading" is occurring on their pages now than in the past. (FL)

Reevaluated findings for subtle items in the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory D Scale in 214 subjects based on the distinction between item subtlety and face validity. Results indicated that the inclusion of nonpathological items in the D scale did not lead to greater predictive validity of depression criteria. (LLL)

Reports that across the sites studied and across the different types of news items newspapers varied markedly in their coverage of Mexican-Americans. (FL)

In 1994 the Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned a monitoring project which assessed the frequency and representation of sexual behaviors in five daytime television soap operas. A new study sought to provide up-to-date quantitative information and to extend the previous project by examining more specifically the representation of planning for and…

This study examines the structural characteristics of item classification for examination questions. Two different approaches are suggested to testing outcomes of studying history: that of the cognitive psychology and that of the philosophy of history. (MP)

Presented at "Translation 73," a conference on the present state of literary translation, Columbia University, March 30, 1973. (DD)

The implicit sexist thoughts and standards in children's books stifle girls' ambitions and potential and therefore must be countered by sensitive critics. (CH)

Reviews recent yearbooks from high schools and colleges across the country with suggestions for improvement. (RB)

The study of the contribution of linguistics to the non-quantitative methods of document processing used in information science is the subject of this article. These methods are divided into two broad groups: tabulation (linguistics units extracted from natural language) and interpretative (syntactical and/or semantic analysis). (100 references)…

Demonstrates effective editorial writing by analyzing the contents of an editorial. (RB)