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Uncommon Valor
When two Naval officers entered the inferno of the Pentagon's west flank to search for survivors, they put their own lives on the line
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Madam Montessori
Fifty years after her death, innovative Italian educator Maria Montessori still gets high marks
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The Limerick is Furtive and Mean...
From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses
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Astronomy's New Stars
Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens