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...only last fall that an improbable little part-island, part-mainland Spanish territory in Africa won its independence and sidled into the world's consciousness as the 126th member of the United Nations. The omens could not have been brighter. Spanish U.N. Ambassador Don Jaime de Pinies applauded "the splendid example of peaceful independence" set by tiny Equatorial Guinea, and in return the nation's U.N. ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing...
...they enter first grade. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out who gets placed in the low ability groups. The net effect is that the majority of black pupil are doomed to under-achieving at age six. The "poorer" first grade students cover less material than their "brighter" peers, supposedly because they are unable to handle as much...
...piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...
Artist may work with space and color. Since Cezanne, an artist's space has been getting shallower and his color brighter. One of the best pieces in the exhibition, Andrew Tavarelli's red, blue, yellow, orange, and green stain painting, again on a gigantic canvas, is color, floating and blowing across a white expanse...
...that are residues of exploded stars like the one that formed the Crab nebula; 2) a pulsar had recently been detected in the Crab by radio telescopes and 3) the Crab pulsar, or neutron star, beeps faster than any discovered to date. Thus it is presumably younger, hotter and brighter, and could be seen more easily than any other...