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"This place" is Webster Groves High School, which sits off the main street of a pretty town of old elms and deep porches, about 10 miles southwest of St. Louis, Mo., where, when people ask you where you went to school, they are not referring to college. That's just...
And yet this school, like every other school, is changing fast, by accident and design, because everything that touches it is changing too--the economy, family life, technology, race relations, values, expectations. TIME picked this school for the same reason marketing experts and sociologists like to wander this way when...
The six-part series, entitled "Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr.," will challenge the Western view that Africa was a primitive continent until it was "civilized" by white people, Gates said in a press release.
Each hour-long episode explores a different portion of Africa's heritage. One episode will focus on Ethiopia's role as a holy land for Africans and includes a chance encounter with Minister Louis Farrakhan in the west African city of Addis Ababa.
The big number: 19, as in points that the Browns are giving to a RAMS team that defies, well, logic. Normally you'd be n-v-t-s nuts to give up that many points, but then again, Cleveland is that bad, and St. Louis just might be that good...