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...Smith explains. "They end up dealing comfortably with maps and the ability to decode information from maps, to use an atlas, read latitude and longitude." The class accomplishes this in an atmosphere of controlled chaos. Students throw questions at one another as they pore over their material. "Does Tasmania belong to Australia?" shouts one student. "Since Greenland belongs to Denmark, does that make Copenhagen its capital?" asks another of no one in particular...
...fear that they had lost a potentially crucial issue for the fall congressional elections. Democratic congressional leaders kept a promise not to gloat; they gravely commended the President's statesmanship. But lower-ranking Democrats could not hide their glee that at last they could silence G.O.P. gibes that they belong to the high-tax party...
...fact, Spence proposed the idea for the letter before the ROTC policy ever cameto a vote at the council, members say. As such,the views expressed in the memo belong only toSpence and Bok, and were not intended to representthe opinion of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Since most old-growth forests are on federal land, they belong not to an industry or a region but to the nation. The federal bureaucracies that manage them have too often operated under antiquated guidelines, framed when the forests seemed inexhaustible and man was oblivious to all but his own needs. Those agencies must reappraise their roles as custodians of the land and recognize the widest interests of the nation, not merely the most deeply vested. To place timber production above every other concern in this era of expanding environmental awareness is an abrogation of the public trust...
About 35 years ago, Dr. George Simkins challenged that prejudice when he ventured onto Gillespie Golf Course for a historic round of golf, a match that eventually opened the course to blacks. Today the public course is a mainstay for black golfers, since no blacks belong to the city's private country clubs. But no one battles that exclusion. "It's like jumping to the moon," Simkins explains. "You know you can't do it, so you never...