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Genealogists disagree on whether to begin by searching the many rich websites devoted to genealogy or by traveling directly to a source for documents, whether it's the local branch of the National Archives, a well-stocked genealogical library such as the Newberry in Chicago or the Clayton in Houston, or the closest Mormon Family History Center. In some cases, the Web is a clear time saver. George Warholic, a Rockville, Md., economic consultant, set out in 1983 to trace his Ukrainian relatives. "It was a chore," he remembers. "I spent weeks at the Library of Congress, searching hundreds...
...their homelands and much more than twice that amount left for economic reasons. Citing fears form the failure of Vietnam as haunting the U.S. and preventing it from assuming a larger role as peacekeeper in the world, Fritz suggests a possible solution being the creation of a "special military branch for the sole purpose of enforcing peace agreements." With the recent success of U.N. peacekeepers being dubious at best, it is unlikely that this proposal will be implemented anytime soon. However, the West should heed Fritz's call if it hopes to find a way to solve the refugee problem...
What's sad is the report from a friend of mine who is teaching high school English. The Monica tell-all was the talk of the 10th grade. The reaction? It was "cool." MARY L. LOCKHART West Branch, Mich...
...formal operational), the better part of Piaget's work is less well known, perhaps because schools of education regard it as "too deep" for teachers. Piaget never thought of himself as a child psychologist. His real interest was epistemology--the theory of knowledge--which, like physics, was considered a branch of philosophy until Piaget came along and made it a science...
Soon it dawned on a few insightful souls, Godel foremost among them, that this way of looking at things opened up a brand-new branch of mathematics--namely, metamathematics. The familiar methods of mathematical analysis could be brought to bear on the very pattern-sprouting processes that formed the essence of formal systems--of which mathematics itself was supposed to be the primary example. Thus mathematics twists back on itself, like a self-eating snake...