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Pg… 4 PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Pg… 6 MOMENTS IN LIFE
Pg… 14 LETTERS
Pg… 19 NOTES FROM THE INTERIOR Can We Talk? by Roger Rosenblatt
Pg… 22 EDUCATION Yearning to Learn With public education in chaos, two teachers offer innovative solutions
Pg… 24 Bayton’s Boys Do the Right Thing A class of lost kids is rescued by a wise and loving teacher
Pg… 36 Getting to the Core What should children know? Educator E. D. Hirsch suggests some controversial ideas by Peter Meyer
Pg… 40 Too Near the Sun If the plan worked, climbing Everest would be the easy part by Claudia Glenn Dowling
Pg… 58 Palio In the name of the Virgin and centuries of tradition, Siena, Italy, hosts a rowdy horse race Photographs by Gianni Giansanti
Pg… 64 BOOK EXCERPT Scarlett: The Sequel to Gone With the Wind Does she get him back? Finally, the world has an answer by Alexandra Ripley
Pg… 76 Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Making an audience laugh is no joke Photographs by Arthur Grace
Pg… 87 SNAPSHOT Picturing Happiness by Lynda Barry
Pg… 88 JUST ONE MORE