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...been watered down to a call to "break the cycle of violence" by bringing the bombing to a halt "as soon as possible." Even then, the vote was deeply divided. But diluting the resolution made no difference. Thousands of boycott threats started pouring in to the place that practically taught America how to boycott. "We're getting e-mails saying, 'I'm not going to spend another dime in Berkeley,'" says Reid Edwards, chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce...
...central China. The sect's emphasis on decentralized congregations launched a home-church movement that helped Christianity survive communist repression. Yet as Little Flock congregations became isolated, they splintered into separate groups. The Shouters, for instance, rewrote the Lord's Prayer to read simply, "Oh, Lord Jesus," and taught followers to holler the phrase while stamping their feet in unison. Other offshoots, like the Disciples, believe that the devil exists in all people?and can be beaten out of them...
Many opponents of the MCAS still maintain that the changed scores have come at the cost of genuine improvement since teachers might have modified their curricula and “taught to the test...
...Huene, an aristocratic Russian emigré, found himself. Before long he was the chief photographer of Paris Vogue, and a symbol of the very world he captured so beautifully on film. In 1930, Huene met Horst in a cafe and became both his artistic mentor and his lover. He taught Horst the tricks of the trade and turned him into a superb photographer...
...physics of today is the same physics of Maxwell or Einstein at the turn of the century, only more detailed. Though we have much more accurate explanations of physical phenomena, Newton’s laws of nature remain logical simplifications of them, and are indeed still the first things taught to high school students...