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• The Medusa Mythology Exam was featured on the Countdown to College Radio Show.
• Connecticut Public Radio's Colin McEnroe had a show on Reviving the Classics.

• Dr Lorna Robinson: 'Latin inspires and enthuses children'
• Next Test: Value of $125,000-a-Year Teachers (Latin teachers too!)
  
• Storytelling: Learning from Year of Latin Lasted a Lifetime
• Latin Club speaks language of charity
  
• All roads lead from Rome
  
• Schools see resurrection of student interest in 'dead language'
• Students choose smaller majors
• Reviving a 'dead' language
• Stuck in Vermont 19: Latin Day a YOUTUBE VIDEO!
• Virgil Goes Viral
• Learning Latin – what’s the point?
• Latin Lovers: A language still needed as much in Birmingham as Sicily
• Latin lovers are enjoying a boom
  
• Et tu, J.K. Rowling
• Magical thinking: Anne Carson's poems
• All hail the Roman citizenry at E.T.R.
  
• Vatican's Latin expert no stuffy academic
• Latin is alive and well at Utah schools
• Classics: Local readers relish a good debate over ancient Greek yarns
• Latin revival shows everything very old is new again
• Passion for Latin thrives in Rome
• Carpe NLTRW’: MC professor urges Latin students to ‘seize the week’
• A Classic Comeback
• Ancient Roman coins still can buy broad educational goals
• Hooked on Classics
• Students learn Roman culture for certamen tournaments
• Ancient Tongues on Tap at Cony
• Alex Holmes--USC's Renaissance Man
• Students play racy Roman lives hoping nothing is lost in translation
• Mirabile dictu, amor Latin est nunc et semper
  
• Greek to You: Is classical education dead?
• Classics on odyssey from stuffy to cool
• Teacher's Web site links students to ancient past
• Classic Chicago: A non-traditional approach to studying Greek, Roman antiquities
• Pope Pushes for Wider use of Latin
• U.S. Study of "Dead" Latin is Making a Comeback
• Latin Makes a Comeback
• I think, therefore I do Latin
• Latin classes return
• Net helps resuscitate a "dead" language
• FROM TIME MAGAZINE
  The New Case for Latin: Some schools find that kids learn more about English by studying the language of ancient Rome
• When In Rome ... Or Not: Retired teacher still laughing in Latin 

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