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...boyhood baseball hobby died out, but Shapiro, like many others, rediscovered it in adulthood. The original attraction in his case was the Baltimore Orioles of the late 1970s. Now Shapiro is more Bird-brained than ever, since Baltimore has erected the neo-nostalgic Camden Yards field, which he saluted in his last baseball opus for TIME...
...Contemplating the small courtyard that still contains fragments of the boyhood home of Marco Polo, one wonders: Did memories of almost this same scene sustain the 13th century adventurer in his wanderings? Or was happiness for him always the sight of Venice in the rear-view mirror...
...David Leopoulos, Clinton friend since boyhood who says Clinton likes to eat, talk and fiddle with the tape deck when driving on the road
...yearsold. I had, believe it or not, quite an experiencefor a kid. I was within walking distance of thenational zoo and a short bus ride from the UnitedStates national museum near Rock Creek park. Atthat time it was safe, so I had the combination inthis sensitive period of my boyhood of having thewonders of the zoo to visit at my leisure and theSmithsonian as well as a park where I could go andcatch butterflies. It makes me wonder why morekids don't become biologists who live in thevicinity of zoos and national museums inWashington and other great cities...
...last those protests from White House occupants -- some real, some mock -- about the duties and the life in and around the grand old mansion have faded. George Bush still gets misty-eyed wandering those corridors of history and confesses, "I love it here." Bill Clinton never got over his boyhood handshake with John Kennedy in the Rose + Garden -- a quasi-religious experience -- and he has devoted his life to going back there to live...