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...possum has landed!" Crowd at the New year's Eve possum drop, an annual ritual in Brasstown, North Carolina, that parodies the dropping of a ball in New York's Times Square. A live possum is used

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple crafts to mountain people. Last year Behrman raised $16,000 to get WKNO's 98 lessons kinescoped, ran them over Charlotte's WBTV for 1,000 students. The 750 graduates, who proudly showed up for a televised commencement, deluged Behrman with thanks ("I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Assault | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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