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“I learned an enormous amount at NIE, and when I resigned, I wrote President Carter saying that I had not worked this hard since the first year I taught,” Graham says.
DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events...
In Russia such decisions are commonplace: bridges, houses, factories and other structures are frequently rushed into service to meet deadlines without proper testing. But rarely does the practice have such tragic consequences. And yet it doesn't seem that any lesson was learned. Last December, a little more than a...
“This has some very strong analogies to Vietnam in a way that disturbs me very much,” he says. “It’s as though we haven’t learned very much.”
All of this was heady indeed! But what did we gain from all this? An abiding love of learning, the excitement of and appreciation for creativity, the wonder of the flexible, inquiring mind. What we experienced is antiquated, what we learned is timeless.