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The last students to sit the exam will take it in summer 2006

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The last students to sit the exam will take it in summer 2006.Helen Hallett, head of external relations at AQA, blamed the reason for the low take-up on "an overloaded curriculum" - and the fact that there were no opportunities to take the subject at full A-level."The introduction of AS-levels was supposed to widen the sixth-form curriculum," she added. "However, in practice, students have opted to take extra AS-levels in subjects near to those they have chosen for A-level."Students know they need to get places at university and so they stick to subjects in which they are interested so they can gather the points they need to get to university. As she put it herself, "I always say that the family would now be called dysfunctional; back then we were just Danzigers." She also vowed from the age of seven that whenever her father yelled at her or made fun of her weight or clumsiness she would later use this material in a novel.She kept her word in her first and best story, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, published in 1974 but still in print, together with most of her other books. Author of over 30 children's books, Paula Danziger excelled in problem stories with happy endings. But such problems were never allowed to seem too great, and their happy conclusions owed much to main characters' developing positive attitudes for themselves while also sometimes coming across a potentially romantic new interest into the bargain.

Paula Danziger, children's writer: born Washington DC, 18 August 1944; died New York 8 July 2004. Today it is accepted that but for Rockefeller's compromise with the state of California, which advocated a far smaller area, there would probably be no Redwood National Park at all.Rupert Cornwell. He served under five US presidents in various capacities related to the outdoors, seeking to realise the conservationist's dream of protecting spectacularly beautiful places, while expanding public access to them.Many of the most famous parks across the US owe much to a man whom the first President George Bush, awarding him the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1991, described as "a hidden national treasure". In the conservationist field, that same gift proved vital in 1968, in creating the Redwood National Park in California, a 58,000-acre expanse established at a cost of $2bn to protect the giant trees coveted by loggers.At the time he was criticised for not safeguarding a larger area.

From his gift emerged the Virgin Islands National Park.His talents were soon directly employed by Washington. After founding the American Conservation Association in 1958, Rockefeller was named by President Dwight Eisenhower to head the Outdoor Recreation Review Commission, set up to study the creation of new national parks.The middle son among five ambitious and talented brothers, Laurance Rockefeller was known within the family for promoting compromise among his siblings - not least between the two most publicly prominent of them, Nelson and David. The Tallman Mountain State Park was the first of them, created from land Rockefeller donated to New York state in 1942 to preserve some lovely landscapes among the lower Hudson river.Seven years later, he gave the federal government 30,000 acres of stunning mountain country which his father had acquired at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, helping establish the Grand Teton National Park.In 1956 he made over to the federal government 50,000 acres, or half, of the island of St John, the smallest and most pristine of the US Virgin Islands. In 1969, he re- organised his venture capital operations into Venrock Associates, which put up seed capital for Apple and Intel, two of the foremost computer companies of today.

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