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...Many Turkish parents blame the German school system, which they say does not offer enough language training. School officials in turn blame parental indifference. "This is an empty debate and one that is conducted on the backs of the children," says Cem Ozdemir, 34, a Turkish-German member of the Bundestag. Ozdemir believes parents should realize "how important it is for them to promote their kids' language skills" at home. Educational authorities, he says, should draw up "intercultural curricula," organize more German and integration courses down to the kindergarten level and better prepare teachers to work with foreign-born pupils...
...endless reproductions of the aircraft carrier Enterprise and the battleship Missouri: model kits as cookie-cutterish as the ships they represented. American naval vessels seemed mass produced - Yorktown-class carriers, Iowa-class battleships, Portland-class cruisers. Credit Henry Ford for the assembly lines that won the war. But blame him for the blandness of the fleet. What was the difference between the Enterprise and the Yorktown? The Iowa and the Missouri? None that I could see from the Revell kits they sold at my local hobby shop...
However, at least one department member, Mansfield, says the department may also be to blame...
...magazine is so in touch with Southern politics and values, I ask him, why is its circulation a measly 8,000? You can't blame that on the North too. Sullivan suggests it is because the magazine hasn't been marketed well, but that's about to change...
...idea of space tourism vaguely distasteful. "That," says Anderson of Space Adventures, "is a huge mistake. NASA needs to understand that what people most want is to experience space, not read about it or watch a few elite government astronauts participate in it." For his part, Tito doesn't blame NASA for its attitude. "I realize that my flight turned the clock ahead of what they had planned," he told TIME last week. "I understand their resistance...