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...with a geography lesson in which she locates major cities according to where Tootsie Rolls are made and sold. Then she turns to her reading: if her class makes enough progress in The Berenstain Bears at the Teen Rock Cafe, they will win a party at the local Pizza Hut. Her science lesson--Scientists and the Alaskan Oil Spill--comes to her courtesy of none other than Exxon...
...many of America's 43 million school-age children are being bombarded by a growing number of blatantly commercial messages. Channel One, with two minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of news, plays in more than 12,000 schools, while more than 58,000 schools participated in Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program this year. Financially strapped and desperate to spice up their curriculums, teachers may find irresistible the slick materials from the likes of Tootsie Roll and Disney jamming their mailboxes. "It's a lesson plan in a can," says Robert Paulis, a high school...
...Loeffler '96 for "A Gilgul fun a Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...
Linzee and his parents took a year off to travel around the world during high school. He traveled through Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. His trip included sojourns to his great-uncle's medieval castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a leaf hut in Malita Island, part of the Solomon Islands...
...discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...