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27259
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Aerospace, Bioethics Programs Burnish Tuskegee's Luster |
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Ted Landphair |
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In 1881, a 25-year-old former slave from Virginia used a $2,000 gift to open a one-room teacher-training school in one of the poorest rural counties in the southern state of ...
Issue Date: 4 / 2010
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27080
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Peace Corps' Rising Popularity |
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Karen Goldberg Goff |
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The Peace Corps, the volunteer program that emerged from President Kennedy''s New Frontier in 1961 to promote international development and good will, is seeing a record number ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2010
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27084
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Community Gardens Bear Many Fruits |
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Rachel Abrams |
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Backers of urban community gardens say they encourage self-reliance, beautify neighborhoods, and conserve green space in the middle of a city. "It shows people that you can ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2010
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27016
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Cherokee Language Preservation |
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Susan Logue |
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Six young children -- four girls and two boys -- sit on the floor looking up at their teacher seated in a chair. An older woman with streaks of gray in the long, straight hair ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2009
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27019
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Hand Talk: Forgotten Films Document Native American Sign Language |
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Bill Dockery |
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Dressed out in an elaborate feathered headdress, Tom White Horse sits in a tipi, gesturing broadly. The black-and-white image flickers like an old-time movie as the Arapahoe ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2009
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25873
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Understanding Human Resilience |
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Adelheid Fischer |
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Comeback Stories: Understanding Human Resilience
For people living in many of the small towns sprinkled across the American heartland, hope is the kind of four-letter ...
Issue Date: 11 / 2007
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25819
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The Indian Club, Part I |
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James C. McGowan |
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Only twenty-two years after the massacre at Wounded Knee, a small band of warriors arrived at West Point to battle the Army. They came from tribes across the country, and were ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2007
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25821
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The Indian Club, Part II |
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James C. McGowan |
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(Continued from Part I)
Warner had devised an ingenious plan to use the school’s “outing system” to keep his players under control, to keep them in shape, and to earn a few ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2007
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25854
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The Pitch to Recruit Blacks |
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Tim Lemke |
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In the eyes of baseball Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the sport he oversees is in a golden era. Attendance at major league games is at an all-time high, TV and Internet ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2007
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25202
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Bay Buccaneers: Uncovering the Real History of Pirates |
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Gabriella Boston |
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The Pirates of the Caribbean''s Jack Sparrow was here. Well, not literally, but Jack Sparrow-type characters were not just part of the Caribbean landscape. They ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2006
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24791
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To The Shores of Tripoli: America's First Overseas Conflict |
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Dave Bartruff |
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No sooner had Thomas Jefferson taken his oath as the third president of the United States than he was confronted by the first declaration of war by a foreign power against the ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2006
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National Museum of the American Indian: Where Culture, History, and Issues Come Alive |
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Cynthia Grenier |
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The first new museum on the National Mall in seventeen years opened its doors in September 2004 with rather unusual fanfare involving some five thousand members of the various ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2005
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23511
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A People of Faith |
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Armenia was the first Christian nation in the world, and its culture is a bastion of Christian identity. Armenians consider themselves descendants of Noah, the survivor of the ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2003
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22623
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Father of International Law |
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Eric P. Olsen |
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Spanish conquest of much of the New World during the sixteenth century brought untold wealth into the empire but unspeakable suffering to indigenous peoples of the Americas. ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2002
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22010
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Girls Kick: Women's Soccer Earns a Unique Place in Sport |
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John Haydon |
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In 1991 the U.S. women's soccer team won the FIFA (Federation
of International Football Associations) Women's World
Championship, defeating Norway 2--1 before sixty ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2002
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21179
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Realize the Divine: Hippie Hasidism in New York |
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Rachel Buchman |
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The Carlebach shul rocks. Literally. On this blustery Friday
night on the swank Upper West Side, New York City''s grayish
version of foliage appears to dance every time the ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2001
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21180
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Song and Spirit |
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Traditional Hasidism advocates following the Halakah (religious law) but believes that it is not enough to simply perform the task. Adherence must be performed with kevannah ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2001
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The Zero-Year Curse: Might Tragedy Befall the President? |
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William S. Connery |
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Chief Tecumseh cursed William Henry Harrison before he took presidential office. Does the curse still linger?
On February 7, a former IRS agent was found just outside the ...
Issue Date: 6 / 2001
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Homecoming: Retracing My Welsh Roots |
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Jane H. Halpert |
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Dave was showing me the sitting room, first the blue parakeet
and then the statues around the fireplace. "Just look at him,
girl," he said, picking up a heavy china lion and ...
Issue Date: 9 / 2000
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Strong Roots: Horseradish Farming in Collinsville, Illinois |
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Dan Marshall |
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"You forget the difference between fresh and the stuff in a jar," explained Lisa Petrie, chairwoman of the International Horseradish Festival in Collinsville, Illinois. "It opens ...
Issue Date: 6 / 2000
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