Word: approaching
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...want to avoid perpetuating the mistakes of their own upbringing. Today's potential parents look beyond their own mothers and fathers when searching for child-rearing role models. Says Kip Banks, 24, a graduate student in public policy at the University of Michigan: "When I raise my children, my approach will be my grandparents', much more serious and conservative. I would never give my children the freedoms...
Word of Smith's success is spreading. In the past year, he has spoken in California, Kentucky, Missouri, Connecticut and Massachusetts to educators interested in his approach to the subject. Geography is making a comeback in this country after a long decline, according to National Geographic Society staff member Jane Tully. In Tennessee, for example, enrollment in high school geography classes is up more than 100% since 1987. "Geography simply got lost as a subject," she explains. "It got folded into social studies after World War II, and it lost its identity. This also meant that a whole generation...
...approach abroad is based on the premise that foreign readers know more about certain subjects than Americans do -- and less about others. We delete stories that are of purely national concern (for example, on U.S. sports) and add others that are of interest abroad...
...silent majority of Quebeckers approved Meech Lake. For them it was a chance for constitutional peace, so we could tackle more directly problems of international economics, demography and the environment. No agreement can be 100% satisfactory, but it was a pragmatic approach...
...privately asked the British to act as a link between the U.S. and the P.L.O. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has agreed to Baker's request, and will soon visit the Middle East, where he is expected to meet with Yasser Arafat. The P.L.O. leader has accepted the Baker approach...