Word: groves
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...goes by the name of the Pine Grove Elementary School, a stark clapboard affair the size of a mobile home, some 40 miles of gravel road from Jordan, a hiccup of a town on the plains of eastern Montana. Pine Grove is one of 640 one-room public schoolhouses left in the U.S., a good example of a vanishing breed that occupies a hallowed place in American mythology. And the formula still works. Montana alone has more than 100 one-room schools in operation, and the state ranks third nationally in achievement tests...
...women in search of role models," Valerie Grove wrote in The Times on the day Thatcher resigned, "the first woman prime minister proved a contradiction: so impressive, but so very unlike what most women would like to be--loved and happy. A hard act to follow, and harder still to emulate...
...Barnes '93 Gady A. Epstein '94 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Mahdavi Sunder '92 Feature Editor: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Arts Editor: Kelly A.E. Mason '92 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Photo Editors: Guenter J. Meyer '92 Nelson Y. Yang '92 Business Editor: Jennifer W. Grove '94 Copy Editor: Catherine C. Marcus...
...ruling meant that biological parents Crispina and Mark Calvert of Orange County, Calif., could finally fill out the birth certificate for their son Christopher Michael, which has remained blank since the boy's birth on Sept. 19. The surrogate mother, nurse Anna Johnson of Garden Grove, Calif., vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to gain custody. "I'm in a state of deep mourning for my son," she said...
...will stumble across them. When tapes become public, the humiliation can be intense. The sheriff of Morris County, Kans., filmed his wife and himself with a rented video camera and mistakenly returned the camera to the store -- with the tape inside. Copies quickly circulated around the town of Council Grove. Eventually, the sheriff had to resign, and the couple left town...