Word: ores
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...rewrite history along broader racial and ethnic * lines is making for livelier and more accurate instruction. California's public school system adopted new history and social-studies guidelines in 1987. Now, for example, students study feudalism as it occurred in Japan as well as in Europe. In Portland, Ore., elementary school teachers can select African-American examples for their history, science or music lessons from materials prepared by experts in each field. "America is, and has been from the beginning, a multicultural and multiracial society," says Charlotte Crabtree, director of the UCLA-based National Center for History in the Schools...
...happened, many view their service as a necessary repayment for whatever benefits they have derived from their reserve status; others seem moved by genuine patriotic ardor. Says Army Major George D. Lanning, 41, who last week left his job as superintendent of the Amity School District in Amity, Ore., to assume command of the 35- member 206th Transportation Detachment in Fort Lewis, Wash.: "The group is pumped...
...Brazil from the Third to the First World, and he is convinced he can do it with a freer market, greater industrial efficiency and a leaner bureaucracy. Certainly, Brazil's potential is enormous. It has immense rivers and forests, rich agricultural lands, huge deposits of gold, gems, petroleum, iron ore and minerals. With a gross domestic product of $350 billion and annual exports of $34 billion, it is Latin America's most developed nation...
...conspires in that belief. Sports stars move in a rarefied world of privilege where good grades, money, drugs and sex are readily available and transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys" and a sotto voce variation of "She asked...
...yuppie lunacy, just as they shirk from starting another social revolution. Today's young adults want to stay in their own backyard and do their work in modest ways. "We're not trying to change things. We're trying to fix things," says Anne McCord, 21, of Portland, Ore. "We are the generation that is going to renovate America. We are going to be its carpenters and janitors...