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...appetite for that pastrymaking jaunt to Provence? For $1,665, including room, board and air fare from the U.S., you can spend a week in Guatemala to "learn about the history of repression and political violence," courtesy of the Center for Global Education in Minneapolis, Minn. Does scuba diving in Hawaii leave you cold? For $3,299, plus airfare, you can travel through Southeast Asia to meet with land-mine victims and "learn how the secret CIA war on Laos affected the people," a three-week tour organized by the group Our Developing World in Saratoga, Calif. Says Thomas Johnson...
...rates equal to or higher than those for public schoolers. These schools compete for students like L.J. Decker, 17, from Katy, Texas, who scored 1560 on the SAT and was part of a team of home schoolers who won the Toshiba ExploraVision contest for their idea of a futuristic scuba device that would use artificial hemoglobin to convert the oxygen in water into...
...appetite for that pastrymaking jaunt to Provence? For $1,665, including room, board and air fare from the U.S., you can spend a week in Guatemala to "learn about the history of repression and political violence," courtesy of the Center for Global Education in Minneapolis, Minn. Does scuba diving in Hawaii leave you cold? For $3,299, plus airfare, you can travel through Southeast Asia to meet with land-mine victims and "learn how the secret CIA war on Laos affected the people," a three-week tour organized by the group Our Developing World in Saratoga, Calif. Says Thomas Johnson...
...parody in the Onion was headlined STUDY REVEALS: BABIES ARE STUPID. According to "research," infants cannot learn to scuba dive or read a map. The joke works because our expectations of babies' intelligence have been inverted--a small sign of the revolution brought about by Spelke's work...
...woman on the plane was unsettling. I am a book-worshipper, and there seemed a form of sacrilege in her mentioning she had never read a book as if she were telling Nancy that she had never gone scuba-diving or snow-boarding - as if reading books were, you know, a lifestyle, like vegetarianism or Pilates...