Word: clapp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Average students pay the price. At Halls Middle School in Knoxville, half the students in Gay Clapp's sixth-grade science class last year were classified as having "special needs." One day last spring, after giving her class a plant diagram to color, Clapp watched as a group of boys got up to hang out at the pencil sharpener, and other students wandered the room for supplies; for a few moments, all order broke down. "It's overwhelming," says Clapp, who has taught for 39 years. "Dealing with this many kids and this many different needs wears...
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, for fiction, Margaret Clapp for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Bernard De Voto for his historical work, Across the Wide Missouri. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to T.S. Eliot '10, well-known for his poetry collections, including The Waste Land (1922) and Ash Wednesday...
With such a variety of activities, Clapp said, she is hopeful that significant progress will be made in the battle against Chagas in the next few years...
Because of a lack of funding, volunteers must pay for airfare and other costs. But Clapp said she is confident volunteers will find SCAN worthwhile...
...order to help prevent the disease, living conditions in the neglected rural communities of South America must be improved," Clapp said. "By improving people's housing, you can see the immediate effects--that people have better places to live...