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They established the Innocence Project in 1991 as a clinic for students at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Scheck has taught for more than 20 years. The clinic is a low-key place, hidden away on the 11th floor of an office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Law students hunched up in cubicles pore over case files and draft legal motions. In a corner, boxes are piled high with letters from prisoners pleading to have the project take their case. The law school pays most of the bills; private foundations, including George Soros' Open Society...
Rebecca Durkee's mom taught her exclusively at home from structured lesson plans--no evolution, thank you. Studying to be a chef, Rebecca had to learn how to do "self-motivated work," while Katie Harwood recalls "learning what we wanted, mostly arty things." Tad Heuer took violin and art classes at public school to supplement home-taught history and literature studies that included visits to Civil War battlefields and 19th century authors' homes...
...extremely disturbing that we should be entertaining the idea of forgetting about Cambodian genocide [WORLD, Aug. 16]. Have we so soon forgotten the lesson taught us by Hitler's Holocaust? The one lesson taught by that insane carnage is never to forget. If we allow the memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world...
Janet Lasley has always been a pretty impressive boss. President of Lasley Construction, a home-renovation-and-restoration business she founded 14 years ago in Rocky Hill, N.J., she taught herself sign language to communicate with one of her first employees, who was hearing impaired. When she cracked her spine on the job 12 years ago, Lasley hired two extra workers and managed them from bed. After she recovered, she kept the replacements on and found enough new work to keep everybody busy. In 1995 Lasley took another big step--one that is rare in the world of small construction...
Hoffman, who taught a popular introductory earth science course at the Canadian university, is expected to teach a fall seminar with Professor of Biology Andrew H. Knoll. Hoffman will also be teaching a core course,Science A-37, "The Changing Surface of the Earth,"in spring...