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...books - and wouldn't know how to read them if they did - it shouldn't be so difficult to pluck out the scores of schools that don't pass muster. But what about the thousands more where students may not all be excelling but where teachers work with the meagerest of resources and, with a little encouragement, just might turn the corner? In other words, how do you tell the really bad schools from the just plain middling ones...
...Endless Summer is essentially a travelogue, with only the meagerest story line: Brown photographs two young surfers as they travel around the world, seeking the perfect wave and following the summer...
...would give the victor economic hegemony over Europe. Today, the march of technology is revolutionizing the economics and geography of the world's most basic industry. From Tokyo to Naples, steelmen are moving to the sea, erecting new plants hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles from even the meagerest deposits of raw materials. Last week, in a move that emphasized this trend, West Germany's sixth largest steelmaker, Kloeckner-Werke, announced that it plans a $25 million expansion of its eight-year-old plant near Bremen...
Since Adolf Hitler's victory inspection of bomb-shattered Warsaw last October, German-occupied Poland has been verboten to neutral correspondents. Only the meagerest details of how 19,000,000 people were faring at the hands of their new Nazi masters filtered through the news blackout to the outside world. The woeful experiences of escaped refugees, occasional off-the-record reportings of neutral consular agents, revelations of the Nazis themselves, have generally added up to the same thing...
...three words: They Were Unwashed! The drains of Clark House became clogged, an incident which necessitated the meagerest and, in most cases, the most insufficient use of soap and water...