Word: mappings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know if most American people can locate Tanzania on a world map," he said. "Herein lies one of the greatest challenges for African countries...
...Guide to Your Child's Emotional, Social, and Intellectual Development, Grades K-5 (Hyperion) "You can't just take it for granted that your child will have the same kind of learning experiences at school that you did," writes parenting expert Ann LaForge. Her book is a commonsense road map to modern elementary schools for parents. LaForge interviewed teachers, principals, school psychologists and other experts to develop her profiles of classrooms in each grade. She urges every parent to make a commitment to stay involved in his or her child's education, whether by volunteering, reading all the papers...
...Extradition is expected to take several months. Meanwhile, government prosecutors will continue working to map the complex series of maneuvers that allowed a failed fund manager, barred from trading by the SEC, to take in millions by managing the assets of small southern insurance companies. Gathering evidence won't be easy: Authorities were first alerted to Frankel's disappearance by firefighters summoned to his $3 million Greenwich home. There they found a burning file cabinet and two fireplaces filled with flaming documents. Frankel's paper trail, which included one note reading "launder money," also included personalized astrological charts answering such...
Burying the past, though, will not come easily in a country where roughly 50% of children are stunted and urchins in wheelchairs swivel around in front of cybercafes crying, "No have mother!" On the map given to visitors who go to the local tourist center, the text boasts of Cambodia's "wonderful history" and its status as a "land of tolerance and of plenty." Visit the "Choeung Ek Genocidal Center," it urges brightly of the rural equivalent to Tuol Sleng, where executioners once beat babies' heads against trees, adding that Cambodia will be "an inexhaustible source of memories to each...
...over eight straight days, 24-7." The directors were usually out of sight and hearing from their stars. Each day they would leave notes in a box for each actor; they gave general instructions--clues, really--on what to do. If Mike were to confess he'd jettisoned the map, the others wouldn't know until he said it. And at night, when the actors were in their tent, says Sanchez, "we'd go out on our raids and scare them--wake them up, leave things behind. We basically played the Blair Witch...