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...imagination is overburdened by research. Historical names, dates and events frequently interrupt the mood that has been so carefully prepared to characterize Bolivar's last ride. True, Garcia Marquez unhorses a legend distorted by politics and patinaed by sentimentality, but Bolivar did a pretty good job of it himself. Schoolchildren may know him as the George Washington of South America, but a great many grownups remember Bolivar as the disillusioned man who said, "Those who have served the cause of revolution have plowed...
...schoolchildren, gathered across the street waiting for their parents to meet them, said they learned of these reports both from the news and from word of mouth...
...Montreal in the next few years, the majority of the schoolchildren will be non-Francophone. The attraction of English in North America is unlimited. So we needed to send new immigrants a message saying this is a French-speaking province. We were not enthusiastic about that, but we thought it was justified. In English Canada, they overreacted...
Allison and his fellow curators have wisely refrained from predicting the future, focusing instead on the discoveries that have brought humanity to its present juncture. Perhaps, though, one of the many schoolchildren visiting the exhibit will look with fresh eyes at its displays and have the flash of intuition that holds the key to the next technological revolution...
...program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...