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Still, it takes a brave student to dive into the deep water of a complicated subject. "For the first couple of weeks, I couldn't understand anything," recalls Great Falls second-grader Courtney Pilka. "But after I got used to it, I started liking it a lot. I learned the alphabet and the numbers. Now it's part of my life." For many students, this is true outside the classroom as well, as they are inspired to explore Japanese restaurants, art and music. "I think the cultural experience is every bit as important as the language," says Jill McKee...
...whole process can be relatively devastating. First-year friendships often take a nose-dive during house-picking season...
Opening up for Goatboy, Gary Powell, a fearsome five-member band, played a loose, raw set. At various points in the concert, members of the audience threw marshmellows and moshed uninhibitedly. Some even attempted to stage dive from a stage one step high--pathetic...
Authorities had no explanation for the crash, which occurred while the crew was practicing a maneuver called "low approach," in which the plane would fly close to but not touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...
Then there is the problem that haunts all studies of "innate" sex differences: the possibility that the observed differences are really the result of lingering cultural factors. Girls' academic achievement, for example, as well as apparent aptitude and self-esteem, usually takes a nose dive at puberty. Unless nature has selected for smart girls and dumb women, something is going very wrong at about the middle-school level. Part of the problem may be that males, having been the dominant sex for a few millenniums, still tend to prefer females who make them feel stronger and smarter. Any girl...