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...Cavaliers slammed Penn State, 11-4, in Charlottesville, Va., while the Tigers upset Temple, 11-6, in Philadelphia, Penn...
...what television tells us -- and doesn't tell us -- about the world we live in. So he set up two representative days. For one 24-hour period, he taped and watched every minute of programming (more than 2,000 hours' worth) on all 93 channels in the Fairfax County, Va., cable system. On the other day, he lolled around a pond and did some hiking in the Adirondack Mountains. His conclusion: despite the unceasing torrent of news, commercials, televangelists, sitcoms and game shows, TV provides an incomplete and distorted picture of our world -- a picture that "masks and drowns...
...reveals, those are also its bad qualities. Scientists have spent more than a decade developing biodegradable polymers, but so far they have proved 10 times as expensive to produce as petroleum-based versions. Last week researchers at Michigan State University in East Lansing and James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., announced that for the first time, they have coaxed the production of a biodegradable plastic from a very inexpensive source: green plants...
...finishers at Easterns will advance to Nationals, scheduled for May 15-17 in Vienna, Va...
This is a perfectly normal morning math class for 31 seven- and eight-year- olds in a room filled with typical Japanese elementary school wall charts. The only odd thing is, it's not in Tokyo. It's in Great Falls, Va., just outside Washington, and all of the children are American...