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As professional and managerial people we want our children to do at least as well as us educationally, or even better, and are rarely satisfied when their choices are not ours and they settle for something deemed 'less'. The idea that there will continue to be general progress is rarely challenged. As the millennium approaches, we stand at a point in history where we view rapid change within our own lives as the norm, forgetting that for centuries change like this had not been perceived over several lifetimes. The idea of change, for the good, is rarely questioned nor is the resulting underemployment of millions of people who have not been taught to use their time effectively and enjoyably.

In the North, you can treat tropical lilies as annuals and replace them every garden season or bring them into a greenhouse pool. In the South where winters are Zone 10, and temperatures rarely fall below 30°F., they can be left out all year. The hardy lilies are stored over winter in a cool Basement where temperatures hold between 40° to 50°F. In the fall before a hard freeze, lift the lily pots from the pool, drain well, and store them leaves and all by covering with damp peat moss so they will not dry out over the winter. In the spring, empty the rhizome from the pot, clean it off, remove any suckers—small, yellow leaves—and repot as you did the year before. Hardy lilies may only be left outside in a pond deep enough that the ice line is above the tuber and the pot. Tropical water plants can be held over in the greenhouse or j sunporch.

T'ang sculptors were extremely skillful in portraying animal forms, many examples of which have been preserved in the grounds of the T'ang imperial tombs. Some smaller pieces are on view in museums of the United States and European countries. Sung Sculpture. With the fall of the T'ang dynasty the creation of Buddhist images in stone almost ceased. Statues in Sung temples were carved in wood, modeled in clay, or, rarely, cast in bronze.