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- Eighth-graders create Holocaust museum (The Champaign News-Gazette)
CHAMPAIGN – The hallway and classrooms at Franklin Middle School were draped with black paper chains and lined with displays. The students standing in front of them rattled off the facts to visitors – 83,000 Jews dead from starvation or disease in the Warsaw Ghetto. Families sending children into hiding. People waiting for days at a switching yard, without food or water, to board a train to a ...
- Training and Wisdom (BG News)
What results from having been primarily trained in clearly defined skills as opposed to being generally educated for self-direction? We know what training in a specific skill is but very few courses have had the stated goal of making students wiser. Researchers reported in the American Psychologist that when we are wise, we use knowledge for the well being of oneself and others.
- Spotlight (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay named the following students receiving honors for the fall semester.
- Seen and heard - Quillblog
Seen and heardQuillblog, Canada - 6 hours agoThree winners will get to choose three Rattling titles each from their wide selection of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and kids’ books – not a bad prize for ...
- Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the sea - Kansas City Star
Anthology traces lines of contemporary poets from across the seaKansas City Star, MO - 19 minutes ago... whose publishing career spanned the 1930s to his death in 1988. But I had trouble finding active performers and writers of French poetry, even in France ...
- EURO 2008: Croatia's Slaven Bilic is an out-of-the-ordinary soccer coach (Slam! Sports)
ZAGREB, Croatia - Slaven Bilic is no ordinary soccer coach. The 39-year-old Croatian has a law degree, writes poetry, is a lead singer and plays guitar in a rock band, and wears a silver earring.
- On Shakey Ground - Philadelphia citypaper.net
On Shakey GroundPhiladelphia citypaper.net, PA - 3 hours agoA song like the clumsy "Let's Impeach the President" has all the righteous indignation of "Ohio" with none of the poetry.
- Glister: the new John Burnside novel - Times Online
Glister: the new John Burnside novelTimes Online, UK - 19 minutes agoBurnside admits that he is drifting away from poetry, for which he has won several awards, towards prose, particularly short-story writing (he is a regular ...
- Elevating science to an art form (The Star)
You may have the best tool in the world, and you may even know how to use it. But what good does that do if you don’t have any idea what to make with it?
- Eric Cantona: Still the king of England? (Daily Telegraph)
Fallen idol Eric Cantona has found a new stage to strut, writes Alison Kervin.
- 'Respect your doggerel,' advises writer, 77 - Vancouver Sun
'Respect your doggerel,' advises writer, 77Vancouver Sun, Canada - 9 minutes agoAmong Wakan's 35 books is Haiku: one breath poetry (Pacific-Rim Publishers), a children's book that was an American Library Association selection. ...
- Can your Child Write in Cursive? - The Conservative Voice
The Conservative VoiceCan your Child Write in Cursive?The Conservative Voice, NC - 37 minutes agoBut, they could express themselves in such flowing phrases as to be pure poetry. I once read a letter written by a Confederate officer in command of troops ...
- Ellen Bass' "Dead Butterfly" (Seattle Times)
How often have you wondered what might be going on inside a child's head? They can be so much more free and playful with their imaginations...
- Fashion News - Fashion Wire Daily - Yahoo News
Paris - Half the passages in this week's haute couture show by Jean Paul Gaultier had birds' names; several were simply entitled cage, befitting a collection where many of fashion's most beautiful models hit the runway bound in wire traps or metal ...
- The old cemetery - Pilot
The old cemeteryPilot, Canada - 20 minutes agoIn spite of those deficiencies, I developed a love for literature, and especially poetry. I may not have been at that early age able to define poetry, ...
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