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Profile: Skeptic (515 words) |
 | In 1969 I was living in Chicago, and was a junior in high school. |
| After the movie, I remember adding up the years and thinking how lucky I was, that I would be there to experience the wonders of the world in 2001 painted so vividly by Stanley Kubrick in that movie. |
| In retrospect, the vision in the movie would have been a better blueprint for NASA than the path that they followed, and better than the path they are on today. |
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Reinventing the High School Curriculum (1361 words) |
| And by high school, the dulling usually accelerates: geometric theorems, the causes of the War of 1812, the periodic table, the subjunctive tense, fat textbook after fat textbook—material that could deaden the most vibrant teen. |
| Of the four-years of high school English, roughly three are currently devoted to the study of literature. |
| High school is the time to begin the career exploration process. |
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