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Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Thornton Dial, a grade-school dropout, says he has been "making stuff" all his life. As a child, he assembled toys out of odds and ends, and as he grew older, he continued to tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships...
...average of 19 minutes a day spent on homework too much for grade-school children? Compared to what? The amount of time they spend in front of the TV or playing video games? DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT Roseville, Minn...
Looking back, looking back. Hill grew up in South Orange, N.J.; her father was a management consultant, her mother a grade-school English teacher. From an early age, Lauryn (she has an elder brother Malaney) was into singing and performing. When she was in middle school, she was invited to sing the national anthem at a high school basketball game. "People went wild," says LuElle Walker-Peniston, Hill's guidance counselor at Columbia High School. "I don't think we had a winning team, but she was inspiring." Fans liked her rendition so much that recordings of it were played...
Harvard's Student Employment Office (SEO) has received federal funding for literacy projects run by PBHA and by the House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) program as part of America's Reading Challenge--Clinton's effort to promote literacy among grade-school students, Bahat said...
...line has swelled out the door of the drop-off room, and, like a grade-school teacher on a field trip, Milstein is prodding and berating the disoriented and disorganized students to stay in line and have their applications in numerical order...