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...switching back and forth so that students take one class in English and another in their native tongue. Whatever language they use, Bruno's charges are getting the message: 86% of her 1,130 students read English at grade level. Such results prompt Bruno, and thousands like her, to brush aside the furor over bilingual education. "If the kids are learning," she asks, "who cares...
...Paraguayan government has consistently tried since then to brush the Mengele issue aside, usually by insisting that he had left the country in the early 1960s. In 1979 Paraguay's supreme court canceled Mengele's citizenship. The official explanation for the revocation was that he had been absent from the country for more than two years. The real reason, according to other assessments, was that Asuncion was growing increasingly uncomfortable with the unpleasant publicity generated by the Mengele association. (Not coincidentally, perhaps, the doctor had by then been the inspiration for two novels, Ira Levin's The Boys from Brazil...
Secretary announces arrival of Sportscaster "Dutch" Reagan, movie hopeful from Des Moines. Ward, who works for the William Meiklejohn Agency, is braced to administer a classic brush-off. Send in Reagan, he tells his secretary...
From Yankees fleeing the northern cold to Asian walking catfish to South ; American water hyacinths, southern Florida has suffered through many invasions by persistent foreigners threatening to displace native flora and fauna. The vulnerable peninsula, devasted last month by wide-ranging brush fires, continues to be under attack, this time by alien trees: the Brazilian pepper and the Australian pine and Melaleuca, all amazingly prolific and fast spreading. Laments Julia Morton, a University of Miami botanist: "These trees are entirely too healthy. They don't have natural enemies here...
...course, even the program's supporters did not expect that Arab-Jewish hatred could be easily remedied. A poll of students last fall revealed that 60% of Jewish youngsters believed Arab citizens did not deserve full civil rights. Many Arab Israelis brush off the course as tokenism. "How can you teach coexistence . . . in the midst of conflict?" asks...