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...visitors also include schoolchildren on field trips to other parts of the museum who must pass by the collection because of the layout...
...ball on the issue, and GOP leaders, including future House Speaker Newt Gingrich, praised him. But Arthur J. Kropp, president of the progressive People for the American Way, weighed in: "Instead of taking his cues from Newt Gingrich, President Clinton should be standing for the constitutional rights of all schoolchildren."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
That could slow down the light-speed pace of the information revolution. There is hardly a company in the industrialized world that hasn't tried to boost productivity by moving work onto computers. Some 70 million Americans -- including more and more schoolchildren -- already spend part of their workday at a keyboard. When the so-called information highway gets built, they could spend even more of their days and nights hunched over glowing screens, bodies perfectly still except for their fingers flying over the keys...
...saving grace of this production is its cast. Terrio and Lisa Halliday give engaging performances as schoolchildren, capturing the posture, motions, and tone of early adolescents. Wietzner's Mother Lovejoy is consistently amusing. Though her movement on stage is unconvincingly agile for a woman of Mother's age, Weitzner's accent, gestures, and facial expressions communicates clearly the attitudes of this pushy ex-belle who's main concern is to seem "aristocratic." Krohn's Loreena is lovably nerdy and woebegone, and her characterization is strongest not when Loreena is speaking but when she is listening, nearly forgotten, as the others...
...morning in Hiroshima, I watched as hundreds of Japanese schoolchildren -- a newly minted generation in their navy-and-white uniforms -- poured out of the Peace Memorial Museum. The Japanese authorities take children there every day, busload after busload, to see the evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945, and the days afterward; the drawings that the child survivors made to show what they had seen; the blinding thousand-sun light; the river choked with bodies; the melted clocks; the nuclear soot that fell upon the city -- "black rain." These sights are implanted in the minds of today's Japanese...