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To: epicure who wrote (14640)	5/27/2001 5:18:53 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

My kids are loving French- although poupee brought one class to a screaming halt. My most vivid memory for sixth grade came from the wall mural of South America we made in pastels. The boys got quite a kick out of the name of Lake Titicaca. They just hooted about it all through the school year. I'll bet that everyone in that class remembers that lake to this day. I haven't been there yet, but it's on the list. Karen

To: epicure who wrote (14640)	5/27/2001 5:21:55 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

My kids are so into the team aspect they even put themselves out of the game when they violate the rules. Wouldn't that be a unique carry-over to adulthood <g> They still ask me to read Bonsoir Lune- which has the maison de poupee in it. I am sure not a one of them will ever forget that word- 2nd graders are such children! ROTFL! I don't think I will ever forget it now, either <G> Just going out for slo-pitch. First time in about 30 years. I'm a little bit nervous. What if I can't hit the ball?! CYA later...

To: epicure who wrote (14640)	5/27/2001 5:36:03 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

This article from the Times was news to me. Thought you might find it interesting. nytimes.com <<snip--More than 60 percent of the counties in the Great Plains lost population in the last 10 years. An area equal to the size of the original Louisiana Purchase, nearly 900,000 square miles, now has so few people that it meets the 19th-century Census Bureau definition of frontier, with six people or fewer per square mile. And a large swath of land has slipped even further, to a category the government once defined as vacant. But something else is under way from the Badlands of the Dakotas to the tallgrass fields of Oklahoma: a restoration of lost landscape and forgotten people, suggesting that European agricultural settlement of big parts of the prairie may have been an accident of history, or perhaps only a chapter. As the nearly all-white counties of the Great Plains empty out, American Indians are coming home, generating the only significant population gains in a wide stretch of the American midsection. At the same time, the frontier, as it was called when it was assumed that the land would soon be spotted with towns and farms, is actually larger than it has been since the early 20th century. --snip>>