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...that sticks? While there are no wide-ranging, independent studies to prove that such best sellers as Math Blaster and Reader Rabbit boost students' grades or test scores, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that kids love them -- and that the best ones can be useful teaching aids. Garry Breitstein, a teacher at Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft's Encarta, a best-selling encyclopedia...
...evening good Coblenzers jammed the Deutsches Eck again. Hoarse with jubilation and flush with beer they stared upward at floodlighted Fortress Ehren-breitstein, went "Aaah!" as rockets and bombshells burst in pyrotechnic brilliance. After the performance busy police turned thousands from the main road home, directed them to a narrow swaying pontoon bridge between Deutsches Eck and the mainland. Came a harplike twanging of strained metal, the bridge lurched, settled in the water. Children screamed, whimpered. Before morning 40 bluish stiff bodies were fished from the yellow waters. Six-year-old Raymond Lawler of Akron. Ohio, went...
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