Let's start with a hard truth. When it comes to education, there is no one panacea, no magic answer for the many different teachers and students in our many different classrooms.
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Saturday, December 09, 2006
By Dorothy Rich (MCT)
Let's start with a hard truth. When it comes to education, there is no one panacea, no magic answer for the many different teachers and students in our many different classrooms.
Let's start with a hard truth. When it comes to education, there is no one panacea, no magic answer for the many different teachers and students in our many different classrooms.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Thursday, Nov. 30:
How's this for a good idea: An oversize drinking straw that sucks clean water from a tainted mud puddle, works for up to a year without servicing, and costs roughly three bucks to make.
The LifeStraw in use.
The following editorial appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Thursday, Nov. 30:
How's this for a good idea: An oversize drinking straw that sucks clean water from a tainted mud puddle, works for up to a year without servicing, and costs roughly three bucks to make.
The LifeStraw in use.
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PopMatters.com (MCT)
This week's PopMatters Picks from the pop-o-sphere:
1. "Iraq in Fragments" (dir. James Longley — Typecast Releasing/HBO Documentary Films, 2006)
James Longley's "Iraq in Fragments" is a meditation on chaos and coping, with its focus intently on Iraqis. From a close-up of 11-year-old Mohammed's eye, looking out on city streets, to a long view of young Kurdish shepherd Suleiman, silhouetted by a setting sun, the documentary offers a range of views and reactions to the US occupation of Iraq. As interviewees struggle to imagine a future beyond the current, daily horrors, they are at once alike and disparate, furious and hopeful, resilient and outraged. The film provides specifics, details of hectic life among ruins, faces filled with dread, desire, and defiance. Whether looking out on empty streets or endless fields in Kurdistan, the film creates a sense of space. Whether cramped or expansive, the compositions are alive with movement, color, urgency. Marchers, worshippers, workers, men with guns: they all suggest that the film has only scratched a surface.
— Cynthia Fuchs
This week's PopMatters Picks from the pop-o-sphere:
1. "Iraq in Fragments" (dir. James Longley — Typecast Releasing/HBO Documentary Films, 2006)
James Longley's "Iraq in Fragments" is a meditation on chaos and coping, with its focus intently on Iraqis. From a close-up of 11-year-old Mohammed's eye, looking out on city streets, to a long view of young Kurdish shepherd Suleiman, silhouetted by a setting sun, the documentary offers a range of views and reactions to the US occupation of Iraq. As interviewees struggle to imagine a future beyond the current, daily horrors, they are at once alike and disparate, furious and hopeful, resilient and outraged. The film provides specifics, details of hectic life among ruins, faces filled with dread, desire, and defiance. Whether looking out on empty streets or endless fields in Kurdistan, the film creates a sense of space. Whether cramped or expansive, the compositions are alive with movement, color, urgency. Marchers, worshippers, workers, men with guns: they all suggest that the film has only scratched a surface.
— Cynthia Fuchs
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Posted by courier at 05:31 AM. Filed under: Entertainment
Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as La Pasionaria (the passion flower) (December 9, 1895–November 12, 1989) was a Spanish political leader. She was Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (1944–1960), President of the Communist Party of Spain (1960–1989), and a member of the Cortes (1936 and 1977–1979).
Read more about Dolores Ibarruri and excerpts from her work and works about her, free from spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Dolores Ibarruri
Read more about Dolores Ibarruri and excerpts from her work and works about her, free from spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
Dolores Ibarruri
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