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Where blackboards turn white and the students get microphones
Special to The SunThose curious about what cutting-edge education looks like should take a look at Nantucket Elementary School in Crofton. The $24.6 million school, which opens Wednesday, is one of the most technologically advanced in Anne Arundel County. Every teacher...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Elementary Schools, Electronics, Crofton, National Government
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WWII Veterans Honored In Berlin
Courant Staff WriterEugene Polaske barely considers himself a World War II veteran, even though he quit high school in July 1945 to enlist in the U.S. Marines. Polaske's unit was training to invade Japan when the atomic bombs were dropped in August, ending the war. So he...Tags: Veterans Affairs, People, Schools, Emergency Incidents, Defense
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Testing Linguistic Reflexes
Q.Our Pittsburgh public service TV station states at the ends of programs, "This program was made possible by the contributions of people like you." But should it be "people like yourself or people like yourselves"? — Joseph Forbes,...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Jane Austen, Television Industry
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Enough already with the plastic
The City Council of Baltimore might not be ready to ban single-use plastic shopping bags, but I am. I'm done. I don't know when this happened exactly, but I reached some sort of tipping point with plastic bags a few weeks ago. Now I can't stand them. Some...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, New Year's, Hunt Valley, Weather Reports, Roland Park
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Books in Brief: Local
Special to the SunThere's no one right way to write a life story. You can arrange it in chapters or as a series of vignettes. You can present it with or without illustrations. You can approach it from the outside looking in, as found in most biographies. Or you can tell it...Tags: Henri Matisse, Northwestern University, Arts, Mike Tyson, Book
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Donald Graves, 79; State Department Kremlinologist in Cold War
Washington PostRegional Soviet newspapers in 1980 were reporting an unusually large number of deaths of rocket scientists, and the obituaries were running a bit later than usual. Donald Graves, who collected facts and data about the Soviet Union with a zeal matched...Tags: Death and Dying, Periodicals, Diplomacy, Colleges and Universities, Maryland
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Barbara Kruger goes back to school
Special to The TimesLA JOLLA -- As your eyes plot the final few steps down the central staircase in UC San Diego's new student center, they land on a red terrazzo text panel that reads: "Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror." Not exactly a soft landing but...Tags: Arts, Hannah Arendt, Philosophy, San Diego (San Diego, California), New York
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'The Gift of Rain' by Tan Twan Eng
Special to The TimesJune 23, 2008 Readers of "The Gift of Rain," Tan Twan Eng's sweeping debut novel about the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, may be reminded of the debate over free will and predestination in "Lawrence of Arabia" that neatly divides that...Tags: Literature, Book, Culture, Nuclear Accidents
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Anastasia State Recreation Area, St. Augustine
Thousands of years have washed over this slender sandbar of a barrier island called Anastasia. But only recently has man written his history on this coastline.
As you stand along the park's barren, wind-swept beach, squinting inland over light-washed...Tags: Fishing, Natural Resources, Dylan Thomas, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Florida Gators
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Walsingham Academy graduates 60 during its 61st commencement
247-4760The temperature Sunday soared as 60 seniors waited out a more than two-hour ceremony to receive their diplomas at Walsingham Academy's 61st commencement. Outside, the thermometer read 99 degrees. Inside the school's McAuley Auditorium, spectators were...Tags: Williamsburg, Old Dominion University, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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Those are fighting words in Pakistan
Cut off from the world, even in parts of his own home, Aitzaz Ahsan did what many of his compatriots do in times of personal and political crisis: He wrote a poem. Months of house arrest had left the celebrated lawyer enraged over his isolation and the...Tags: Justice System, Emergency Incidents, Coup d'Etat, Emergency Planning, Emily Dickinson
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Nicholas Delbanco's "The Count of Concord"
Tomorrow morning while your Sumatra blend is brewing, take a minute to pay tribute to Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814), inventor of the drip coffee pot, not to mention a long list of other innovations, elegantly conceived and eminently...Tags: Michigan, Books and Magazines, Illinois, Movies, John Wilson
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