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...children in Mitchell's class are among the newest initiates of the philosophy that is probably exciting more educators than any other right now. Like many schools around the country, Coyote Creek has based its instruction on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, or MI. Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, first proposed the theory in his book Frames of Mind, which was published in 1983. Since then, Gardner's ideas have received widespread attention and acceptance among parents and have been eagerly embraced by teachers. "Multiple intelligences is clearly the biggest thing right...
...flat, parched plains of Sudan seem to run on endlessly, right over the horizon. Outside the few towns, there are no roads, no telephones, no electricity. The country is a vast emptiness of almost 1 million sq. mi.; yet it is home to just 28.5 million people, and the only way to get from one place to another is to walk. If you are starving, it can take days or weeks to stagger to one of the dozen feeding centers run by international aid agencies. That is what thousands of stick-figured Sudanese are doing right now: trekking desperately...
...world's forests burning? Why did uncontrollable fires cut a 7,700-sq.-mi. swath of devastation across Indonesia? Why have the blazes of Mexico sent plumes of smoke across Texas and Louisiana...
STATUS Threatening to suspend a 1994 agreement that froze nuclear activity. Perhaps enough material to build two warheads RANGE 600-930 mi...
STATUS U.S. still thinks Gaddafi is interested in acquiring nuclear weapons, but a U.N. embargo has hampered his progress RANGE 190 mi...