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To: Sam Citron who wrote (53592)	10/2/2001 5:26:58 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

The Agency for International Development paid the University of Nebraska $50 million over eight years, from 1986 to 1994, to produce educational materials for Afghan primary- and secondary-school students. But texts on a range of subjects were highly politicized and often had a militaristic overtone, Tom Gouttierre, director of the university's Center for Afghan Studies in Omaha, now concedes. Some questions prodded students to tackle basic math by counting dead Russians and Kalashnikov rifles. In-freakin-credible! These are educators who got paid $50 million dollars to come up with educational materials and this is the best they could do? I have great faith in my fellow man, until that is, I read stories like this. How do they expect the children to act after growing up in such an environment where counting dead bodies to learn math is considered "normal?" Brian