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Title: Rice tells press "Don't get lost"
Post by: Yann on February 04, 2005, 01:06:27 PM
Rice tells press "Don't get lost"

Friday February 4, 05:07 PM

LONDON (Reuters) - With Americans suffering a reputation as geographically challenged, Condoleezza Rice has handed out pocket atlases to the U.S. press corps on her first trip abroad as Secretary of State.

"I would not want anybody to feel lost" the former university provost quipped as she handed out 18 copies of the books on her plane.

Americans are often mocked abroad for their perceived lack of knowledge of the outside world -- surveys sometimes show U.S. kids cannot even locate neighbours Canada and Mexico.Full Article (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050204/80/fbtab.html)