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...this edition Peterson has added a jewel - 80 extra images from Thomson's trove of 10,500 negatives from Arnhem Land and Cape York. (These, along with 5,700 artefacts and 4,500 pages of field notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff...
...Like many students today, I made up the parent contribution myself by working extra hours every week and taking out student loans,” said Fitzsimmons, who received financial aid as an undergraduate at Harvard four decades...
...last night’s [Dartmouth] game,” Corriero said. “We knew that Vermont’s goalie was really good, and the only way to test her was to put more shots on her. Instead of doing the extra move and stick-handle as we would normally, here we were just trying to get the shot off and create that...
...defense was active,” Chu said. “One thing we’ve wanted from our defensemen is to skate it up if the opening’s there—not to force it, but it’s a help to have that extra flow, that extra player in the offensive rush...
...flexibility, the U.S. Department of Education announced last week that the scores of immigrant kids in their first year at a U.S. school no longer must be counted. The No Child law also allows some of Franklin's learning-disabled kids to take the test with special accommodations like extra time. But it permits only 1% of the district's kids to take an alternate test--even though 14% are special ed. Children at the upper margin may also suffer. Activities for the gifted and talented have not been cut, but high-achieving kids aren't grouped in accelerated clusters...