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...EDUCATION, it runs not only the season's No. 2 installment of Kudos but a story about a new system that teaches children to read by keying consonant and vowel sounds to certain colors. According to this system, by the way, TIME is "spelled" magenta, light yellow and scarlet orange...
...intriguing for potential use in illiterate countries), Words in Color is now being tried in 100 schools in seven states. In Euclid, Ohio, where a pilot project was launched last year, five-year-olds read simple stories, first-graders whip through fourth-grade readers. "What do brown, light orange, magenta make?" the teacher will ask. "Pot!" cry the kids. Dr. William Jordan, assistant head of the elementary schools, says: "We have never seen such progress. Our color readers are far ahead of any comparable groups." Students conquer the course, through such words as schist and hallelujah, in six weeks...
...nappy discovery that symbolic color sticks in an illiterate's brain quicker than a shape, and its basic expansion of the alphabet (from 26 letters to 47 colors) to match the language's sounds, it gives promise of turning into an educational hit (light blue, pink, magenta...
...goes on in La Paz-were unaware that he had gone. It is spring in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Indians are plowing and planting. As their ancestors have done for centuries, those fortunate enough to own oxen bedecked the horns with white streamers and draped their backs with magenta cloth to bring luck. Those without animals simply tore at the grey earth with metal-tipped wooden poles. Women in derbylike hats stooped to plant potatoes, their basic staple of life...
...Harmer Ltd., the world's leading stamp firm. It is a pale blue, unused 2? Hawaiian Missionary stamp-so called because such stamps were mostly used by Christian missionaries writing home in the mid-19th century-and it replaced the renowned British Guiana one-cent magenta ($32,900) as the world's most valuable stamp. Its sale also proved once again that stamp collecting is a lot more than child's play...