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Students engage in a variety of hands-on projects, from constructing thermometers out of shoelaces and cardboard to making lungs out of straws to show the effects of smoking, says Morazes...

Author: By Sheila VERA Flynn, | Title: ExperiMentors Teach Kids Science | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

Beside a dusty, rural road in the eastern Transvaal, six families of black farmers gathered two weeks ago under a thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Their Own Miracles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...killed him is not Side B. That is why Sarajevans welcomed Boutros-Ghali on his recent visit to the city with a concert of boos and hisses the likes of which haven't yet been heard in this - city. Two placards stood out: one, scrawled on a piece of cardboard torn from a box that once perhaps contained humanitarian aid, simply said GHALI HITLER; another said GHALI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From Sarajevo | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...spare change for a trip to Arizona?" read a small sign pasted to one man's coffee mug, as he sat outside the entrance to the Coop. "Need money to go to Hawaii," announced another, more ambitious brown cardboard sign. By far, the most gutsy request was this: "Can anyone spare...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: Begging as a Profession | 12/9/1994 | See Source »

They are both recruited to attend St. Joseph's, a private high school an hour and a half away in the suburbs, reputed for its academics and even more for its basketball program. A faded cardboard cutout of Detroit Pistons legend Isaiah Thomas, who graduated from the school, decays in the trophy display case...

Author: By Mimi N. Schultz, | Title: 'Dreams' A Provocative Mix of Hoops and Glory | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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