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UCLA 68, Alabama-Birmingham...
Future doctors in Birmingham get a leg up by studying a bicycling skeleton. Aspiring engineers in Oak Ridge, Tenn., explore a model coal mine. In New York City, make-believe media moguls produce their own sitcoms in a TV studio. A decade ago, it would have been hard to find such innovative exhibits in children's museums. For the most part, those museums were pint-size versions of adult institutions, where kids were expected to keep their mouths shut and their hands in their pockets...
These days, however, children's museums have been dusted off, jazzed up and wired for action. Young visitors are increasingly encouraged to explore a host of interactive exhibits. Raised on mornings with Big Bird and vacations at Disney World, today's kids are sophisticated "infotainment" consumers. Birmingham sixth-grader Tracy Brunson speaks for many of her peers when she says, "Walking and looking is boring. Touching is funner...
...that had long served as a symbol of white supremacy. In 1968 he led the first racially mixed state delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. As a lawyer, Vance shocked the tight-knit legal community by breaking a gentlemen's agreement to keep blacks off juries in Birmingham. President Jimmy Carter fulfilled Vance's lifelong ambition by nominating him to the federal bench in 1977. He became part of the Eleventh Circuit four years later...
...bombings were a throwback to an earlier era of violent resistance to desegregation. During the 1960s the homes of so many Birmingham civil rights activists were bombed that the city came to be known as "Bombingham." According to Klanwatch, a Montgomery-based organization that tracks such incidents, the past two years have brought 100 racially motivated shootings and assaults, eleven murders and 60 cross burnings in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The N.A.A.C.P. has suffered several attacks. The organization's national headquarters in Baltimore has been hit by mysterious gunfire twice since July, and last August a parcel...