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...launch his project, Beilenson left a family publishing venture, the Peter Pauper Press, in the hands of his wife and son. Peter Pauper publishes inspirational gift books and guided journals including Notes to Myself, World's Best Limericks and Moment in Time: My Life at the Dawn of a New Millenium...
During a month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
...others are in deep denial, like Varsha, a Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard over the pile of bricks and mortar, "to make sure thieves don't take our things." There is no way any of her "things" could have survived; the building is so thoroughly destroyed I doubt a spoon is intact. But Varsha...
...find him, it's only a matter of days." An hour later, it's his turn to cry, and hers to scold: "I'm a mother, and my heart tells me he's alive. How foolish you will look when he comes here tomorrow, and finds you mourning." At dawn, Karsanbhai heads out again, and Sumati calls to Sherawali...
...here's the key question: When historians look back on this moment in American education, will they see a) the beginning of the end of the SAT; b) a national frenzy over school testing in general; or c) the dawn of the testing industry's greatest boom? Try d) all of the above...