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...It’s bad for education. We’ve abandoned real education for basically test prep and gate keeping,” said Larry W. Ward, father of three children in the Cambridge public school system...
...Around mid-day a middle-aged Afghan woman turned up at our office gate. She appeared educated; at one time she probably belonged to the upper-middle class strata of her society. She looked hungry. She appeared desperate. She had a note written in English begging for a teaching job. Two days ago a stray bomb hit her house. Her sister and mother died. She has nobody...
...Seven Gate Cave we stop to rest. From here it's an hour to Baidicheng village, which has easy bus connections to the ancient city of Fengjie at the start of the Gorges. I find myself thinking about the climax of Hersey's novel, in which a tracker falls to his death in Windbox Gorge. A few weeks ago a Chinese journalist died after plunging from a similar trail in another gorge. The path was good, but it was raining and he slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions...
...suspicious powder was found on the sidewalk inside the main gate of the courtyard leading to Winthrop’s D and G entryways...
While the HAZMAT team dealt with cleaning the area, HUPD officers sealed off both the courtyard’s main gate and the doors leading to the D and G entryways that open onto the courtyard...