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...said. DiFabio said that the positive effects of AP Italian are not confined to academics. “Appreciation at a very advanced level of language and culture is also translated into the fact that language is not only taken as a prerequisite, but it becomes a unifying thread in who you are as an individual,” DiFabio said. She noted that for each of the other exams that were dropped—French Literature, Latin Literature, and Computer Science AB—there is another, similar exam that students can take. “It?...
...resolved to fight on. Israel says it has identified at least 200 Hamas members who have been killed thus far, but a Hamas official in Damascus told TIME, "So far we have only lost 60 martyrs. We're prepared to lose many more." Advancing Israeli troops have had to thread through complicated Hamas defenses of roadside bombs and booby-trapped houses, and they are using robots to clear Hamas' maze of tunnels...
...into the darkened hallway that was already filling with smoke. Felicity wielded the torch like a broadsword, swung it left and right. Slowly the dark house came alight with fire. She paused at the top of the great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick’s feet. Frederick shrieked and jumped back as a line of fire sprung...
...Davis said that about one-quarter of the plants Thoreau observed in his notebooks have become extinct, and that 36 percent now are in such low abundance that they are “hanging by a thread...
...drawing, painting, and as a collage artist throughout his long and prolific career, Conner first gained attention for his sculpture work. These pieces were composed entirely of objects found in the scrap heaps of San Francisco—bits of cardboard and old building material, torn fabric and thread, pulp serials, broken dolls and, most famously, women’s nylon stockings.Sudden acclaim for his sculpture work and the implied pressures toward more commercial artistic aims elicited a shift in Conner’s medium of choice. In the late-1950s, Conner moved toward filmmaking, bringing the same creative philosophy...