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...close-knit group during testing early this month in Houston. "When that shuttle goes, there may be one body," said McAuliffe, choking up, "but there are ten souls that I am taking with me." McAuliffe, 36, married to a lawyer (they have two children), teaches social science at Concord High School in New Hampshire. To "humanize the technology of the space age," she is planning to bring back a diary for her students (and the rest of the country). "I'm still kind of floating," says she. "I don't know when I'll come down to earth." According...
...pretty good freshman year,” he says, “and then I went and played summer ball in Concord. My body was taking a pounding. I wasn’t in good shape, and sophomore year, it all caught up to me. It was just a bad season...
...while many of its aforementioned companions have since been let off the hook, parents and educators have continued to dispute Huckleberry Finn’s appropriateness for elementary and high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s—particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...ethos of community of interests uniting students and faculty has gone missing.” Eating with students is the last thought on the mind of professors, who are already busy juggling their careers and families, and who mostly do not live near the campus, but in Lexington, Concord...
...celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour costs $5.95. Other notable offerings: the National Park Service's Revolutionary War tour at Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, for $5.99, tel: (1-978) 369 6993; and the Cell Phone Safari at the Sacramento Zoo in California...