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Gates had many unusual experiences over the yearlong filming of the series, including riding a camel through the Sahara desert with Tuareg nomads and hoisting himself up a rock face to reach the oldest church in Ethiopia...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates to Host Innovative New PBS Series on African History | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...Pilot, the oldest alternative school in the country, is the smallest of the houses, with 235 students in all four grades. The Fundamental School operates with a prescribed curriculum in a fundamental educational setting. The Academy emphasizes collaborative learning, through team-teaching and heterogeneous class groupings. 40 percent of The Academy's student are enrolled in the Bilingual Program (see Lost and Found in Translation, page 9). The Leadership School emphasizes community service and teachers try to educate everyone--including special needs students--together within the core subjects. In House A there are leveled classes where students are grouped...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Trouble in the House | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...have any special rivalries? WH: The big guns, Princeton and Brown. But of course Yale because we have the oldest rivalry in the country--the oldest competition in the United States--and it really means a lot to us to be able to hang with them in the Head...

Author: By Christopher J. Yip, | Title: The Drive | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Cambridge is one of the oldest cities in America. It's packed with people from block to block...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Spot: How the Cambridge Fire Department Earned Its Coveted 'Class One' Ranking | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...break on both nights, but he recovered for the encore. The weakness stemmed from minor problems with the band's talent level, which can be attributed to an attempt to be inclusive. Wooten's band contained both his middle brother Joseph, a keyboard player, and Regi, his oldest brother and a guitarist. Joseph's cheesy pop material was irritating, especially his "Hero" from 1987, but Wooten recovered thanks to his improvisational wizardry...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Swoonin' Wooten at the House of Blues | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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