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...reading or listening. Fourth-graders study aerodynamics and the history of flight while constructing model airplanes. Second-graders try their hand at sculpting while learning about Rodin. First-graders are taught to manage personal bank accounts with play money they can use to buy toys at the student store. Rita Kanell, a first-grade teacher, recalls the joy of watching her students pepper a visiting composer with questions about Beethoven and Vivaldi...
...were most independent and competent later in life (most of the sisters were teachers; many had master's degrees). And breaking with academic tradition--but establishing one of his own--Snowdon first presented his conclusions, not through a journal or a conference but directly to the nuns. Recalls Sister Rita Schwalbe, then one of the convent's administrators: "He threw us a thank-you party, and we thought that...
...nervous Snowdon stood in front of the assembled sisters in Mankato, many of whom he'd got to know as friends, and made his pitch. "We sat in our chairs and held our breath," recalls Sister Rita Schwalbe, who by then had joined Snowdon's research team. "Then one of the sisters piped up, 'He can have my brain, what good is it going to do me when I'm six feet under?' And that broke...
...Reported by Wendy Cole and David Thigpen/Chicago, Nancy Harbert/Albuquerque, Rita Healy/Denver, David S. Jackson/Twentynine Palms, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles, Tim Roche/Atlanta and Rebecca Winters/New York...
...Rita Hamad '03, an economics concentrator in Eliot House, is president of the Society of Arab Students...