Word: civics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most Alive Places to Live." The magazine rated cities and towns on safety, affordability, ease of navigation, cultural diversity, quality of restaurants and opportunities for lifelong learning. Seattle made the list as best city in which to have a heart attack: more than half of its civic-minded citizens know...
...flag to protest Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decision that integrated schools. The Confederate Flag does not fly in South Carolina to honor the bravery and honor of Old Dixie. It was hoisted as a slap in the face to the blacks and whites that supported civic equality for all races...
...that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well as to its potential as the hemisphere's trade, tourism and cultural nexus...
Lions does keep its earnest goal upfront, introducing kids to books through a fuzzy feline family that runs a library (this being civic-institution-loving PBS) and reads--and lives out--a different story every episode. But the real stars are the words that the program's Sesame Street-esque skits, songs and cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain...
BACK IT UP Daron Malmborg can keep his no-civic-vanity plates after all. Utah's division of motor vehicles had issued a recall, but after a couple of calls from the press found its sense of humor...