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Girl Scout troops, schoolchildren and Harvard Medical School students joined in on the effort, as well...
...mark the event, Menino and Harold spoke to a star-struck group of Mission Hill schoolchildren about ways to prevent violence in their communities...
Marla Blakney's fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation's largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the troops are doing the Macarena. Arms crossing, hips swiveling, 24 Philadelphia schoolchildren are shouting a mantra--"Wisdom! Justice! Courage!..."--that is supposed to create the lively but respectful classroom environment that can elude even good teachers. And to their skeptical teacher's amusement, it seems to be working. "When Edison taught us this, I thought, 'This is so corny. My kids...
...rare tour of Sinuiju highlights how badly the place needs China's example. In the spartan North Korean city, few cars motor on the wide streets, and the decaying department store has a meager selection of basic packaged food and dull clothing. At night, schoolchildren gather in the main square to read under the floodlights pointed at a statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. It's the brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic...
...AILING. KINJI FUKASAKU, 72, Japanese director whose 2000 hit Battle Royale, about a group of schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, plans to begin filming Battle Royale 2 in defiance of his doctor's orders...