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Nov. 21st, 2002 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidBut a lot of people don't, according to this article. No surprise, I suppose, but it is sad.
One in 10 young Americans could not locate his or her own country on a blank map of the world.
"Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but apparently today neither war nor the threat of war can adequately teach geography," John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society, said yesterday.
One in 10 young Americans could not locate his or her own country on a blank map of the world.
"Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but apparently today neither war nor the threat of war can adequately teach geography," John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society, said yesterday.