Word: peru
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...many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton in February, "could make it possible for every child with access to a computer to stretch a hand across a keyboard to reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed." Pardon me, Mr. President, but this...
...Oregonian; Sandra King of New Jersey Public Television; Christopher Marquis of The Washington Herald; Suzanne Sataline of The Philadelphia Inquirer; Lily Galili of Ha'aretz in Jerusalem; Dimitri Mitropolous of To Vima in Athens; Frans Roennovof the Berlingske Tidende in Copenhagen, Denmark;Gonzalo Quijandria of Andina de Radiodifusion inLima, Peru and freelance writer Susan E. Reed...
...village, along with the ruins of the same name, lies above Peru's Urubamba River, halfway between the city of Cuzco and the far better-known ruins of Machu Picchu. It is among the few remaining communities still laid out as the Incas planned: by night its residents sleep behind inward-slanting stone doorframes characteristic of Incan design; by day they farm corn and potatoes on the immense terraces their forebears carved out of the Andean slopes...
This summer, 10 students are scheduled to work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Peru, and organizers hope that the program will expand in future years...
Corals are not the only recorders of climate history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...