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Behind the political smoke screens and accusations lies the naked reality that neither party provides the cure for the fundamental disease gnawing away at education. The President offers band-aids to stem the horrific bleeding, while the former senator amputates the limb...
...willing to go out on a limb and advocate an unusual program, if it can be shown to work," says Stowe of the NLP's the philosophy...
Miles, who lost both legs in a mortar explosion in Vietnam in 1969, directs a program that builds prostheses and wheelchairs for amputees in Cambodia, many of them victims of land mines. "Amputees are thought to be quite valueless by Cambodian society," he says. "Giving them a limb is a great thing. Even greater is giving them an opportunity to learn a trade and support their families...
...instruction was crafted to appeal to any and everyone, just for "U"). In the years I taught there, classes sometimes enrolled 200 students. Financial conditions did not allow teaching assistants to help grade papers. Everything was done catch-as-catch-can, on a thumb and limb, but with an incredible good will and generosity on the part of everyone...
...Cross during World War I. "Everything I know about myself had to leave," says the exuberant Bullock of playing the reserved Agnes von Kurowsky. "That's why I did it." Plus she learned all that nurses knew in 1918. "Everything from making an egg cream to amputating a limb," she says...