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...Protestors vowed to carry on with nationwide demonstrations on Tuesday and Thursday. "We want reform to correct the problems in public education, but we won't accept this one in any form," warned student leader Alix Nicolet, who says students particularly hate Darcos' proposal to reorganize the final years of high school. They are also angry that cost-cutting this year eliminated 11,200 public education jobs and that another 13,500 may go in 2009. "How can the government claim it has no money to continue funding public education when it can come up with billions and billions...
...adventurers, whose goods and tales would change the world. Marco Polo's stories became the dreams of Christopher Columbus. The quest for a passage to Cathay, the medieval name for northern China, would propel countless explorers through serendipitous discoveries in America. (In 1634, for example, the Frenchman Jean Nicolet left Quebec in search of China and discovered Green Bay, Wis.) Meanwhile, Franciscan missionary diplomats sent by the Pope to seek an alliance with the Khan against Islam brought back a black powder to a fellow Franciscan, the Oxford scientist Roger Bacon, the first European to write about gunpowder...
...Nicolet's exhibit featured one of theconvention's most spectacular items, "the actualTerminator endoskeleton used in the future warscene of Terminator 2." This frighteningmannequin was used to market Nicolet's newestproduct. "T2--the Ultimate Jawbreaker." Emblazonedwith red and orange flames, this piece of candyhas a "hot endocore center," Nicolet said...
...latest variation on the "motherof all Jawbreakers," Nicolet's standard product.This giant spherical delight takes 30 days to makeand seven days to eat. Nicolet said only onecustomer has ever challenged this data--a teenagegirls who wrote to him claiming she's stayed upall night and completed her jawbreaker. Nicoletsaid he doubts her methods were scientific...
...constant invocations of deity piercing loudly and unecologically through the bucolic serenity of the Northland forest. Earlier, we pulled in to pay and encountered an old woman who began to babble about mushrooms--she was hell-bent, she told us, for the mushroom watcher's club meeting at nearby Nicolet College. She clutched her mushroom directory. Her daughter, a pious-looking woman with butterfly glasses who ran the place, rolled her eyes in embarassment after her mother had bustled out, and remarked that gee I had even remembered my license plate number in filling out the form. She advised...