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Orienteering is a survival skill with military origins. It made the transfer to civilian sport shortly after World War I when a former Swedish army officer set up orienteering programs for schoolchildren. Students who had balked at conventional fitness programs poured into the forests to race from checkpoint to checkpoint, studying maps, steadying compasses and racing against the orienteer's chief adversary, the clock...
...might have been weaned on Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, cello lessons and madrigal singing around the family piano, but I spent my Wonder Years humming along to Diana Ross singing "Baby Love." The future is unpredictable; perhaps in another few years Peru will swing left again, and schoolchildren will be required to sing the "Internationale," but in the meantime, "Love Hurts" is taking Arequipa, Peru by storm...
...they are probably better known than any other pair of presidential contenders in our history, their profiles easily traceable by schoolchildren, their voices familiar fare from morning traffic jam to football halftime...
...week's end the youngest of the three, Richard Schoenfeld, turned himself in to authorities in Oakland. But the other two men were still missing. Also missing was a clear motive for the bizarre crime that prompted the police sweep-the kidnaping two weeks ago of 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver from the sunbaked town of Chowchilla...
...also planned it in chilling detail. The kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...