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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at Reagan's proposals a little bit closer, we see them for the useless rhetorical exercises they really are. In calling for parents to teach their children an "unambivalent appreciation of America," Reagan suggested today's youth ought to learn more about the American soldiers who bombed Tokyo and stormed the Normandy beaches...
...stands in Mrs. Pell's hallway, romancing the sad beautician in hopes of securing testimony against her husband. It seems a cruel bit of FBI sleuthing -- until Anderson steals a glance at her hair. The glance passes as quick as guilt and as long as longing. From it we learn that Anderson knows more about women than we thought, and feels more for this woman than he should...
...students, the gains can be rich. Some of Sadler's initial findings reveal that STAR students do about 30% better than ordinary students in absorbing concepts and learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...
EDUCATION: A heavenly way to learn about science...
Dukakis served as a lecturer and director of intergovernmental studies at the K-School from 1979 to 1982. Many faculty members have said that his stay there gave him the time needed to reflect and learn in order to retake the governor's post, which he lost to Edward J. King...