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...images of what old people want. Actually, they're just things I want to do and need a grandmother as an excuse, the way Bill Clinton likes to hang out with single guys. At some age, you just want to sit still with the people you love and bask in the wonder of routine. And hope that your snot-nosed grandson isn't talking too quickly and quietly on purpose because your hearing is fading and he's actually making fun of your gaudy jewelry. Thank God we canceled the large-print edition of TIME...
...resist, they do. (My bottle of gin was confiscated at the airport and returned with a smile at departure.) The number of tourists arriving each year is already twice the number of residents, but the increase is kept to a manageable 8-10% annually. Everyone benefits. While foreigners bask in luxury far beyond local means during their week or two in the sun, they spend enough to enable Maldivians to enjoy the highest per capita income in South Asia. In the Maldives, paradise was found a long time ago. Happily, it's still a long way from being lost...
Whatever the future brings, the World's original owners can bask in the enjoyment of pioneering the good life's final frontier. At least, that is, until someone announces luxury condos on the moon...
...Cleveland, Ohio Adam Gruber, 14, above, and John Borowski, Benjamin Balducci and Andy Napier, all 15, were white students planning a rampage at their mostly black school. It was to end, one of the boys' friends said, in a suicidal shoot-out with police, with one survivor to "bask in the glory." Officials were tipped off to the plot by another student's mother...
...prepares for this weekend's ECAC playoff shodown with Cornell, the Harvard men's hockey team (15-14-2, 14-8-2 ECAC) can scarce afford to bask in the glory of its postseason accolades. It is a luxury the team will gladly do without...