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The Last Child in the Woods Date: September 20, 2006
American children don't spend nearly as much time outdoors as they did 20 or 30 years ago. Now, kids have all kinds of temptations to keep them inside the house... dozens of TV channels, computers, video games and cell phones, to name a few. The experts are divided on what all this will mean for society in the next 20 years. But

commentator John Richard Schrock worries that our increasing isolation from nature will have profound consequences.

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Commentator John Richard Schrock is a professor of biology education, and chair of the biology department, at Emporia State University.
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