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by Joshua Lapekas

Originally published on August 1, 2001

In March of 1958, five months after Sputnik began its first ninety-six minute orbit around the earth, Life magazine ran a series-story called Crisis In American Education. Two sixteen-year-old boys were featured on the cover. EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF A RUSSIAN SCHOOLBOY VERSUS HIS US COUNTERPART, it read above their juxtaposed photographs. The Russian, Alexei Kutzkov, [...]