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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...family could fly to Boston. The local fire department brought an ambulance for Yolanda's mother, who has since been placed in a nursing home nearby. "The firemen were arguing over who got to volunteer," says King. A day later, the fire fighters came back with brand-new bunk beds for the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Katrina: Guess Who's Coming ... | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...usually superseded old faithfuls. "If the surf was good, I'd pick them up from school and bring them back here for a couple of hours' surfing," says Burling. "Sometimes they'd sleep here and I'd run them back to school in the morning. On weekends they'd bunk in the dining room. After an afternoon's surfing they'd stay up late studying. They found that surfing totally concentrated their minds, like meditation, and they came to their study feeling fresh and 100 percent focused." Ha'atafu had become a special kind of boarding school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rediscovering the Joy of Surf | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...from this local station to the next on the many-hamleted Red Sox Radio Network. Finally on 495 north from Worcester I was able to lock onto the flagship station, WEEI, and I rode that home to Chelmsford. ?Home.? Well, my former home. Still Mom?s. Where I would bunk this night before tomorrow?s midday meet-and-greet at the bookstore in downtown Lowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champs at Midseason | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

More than 200 camps this summer are using Bunk Replies, a new service by Bunk1.com that zaps faxes of kids' handwritten letters into their parents' e-mail In boxes. Angela Williams, of San Angelo, Texas, says she relishes the "instant gratification" of getting e-letters from her son Harvey, 13. Hundreds of camps also post video, newsletters and as many as 500 photos online each day for Mom and Dad to peruse--or buy. The technology, pioneered by a Connecticut-based company called eCamp, is so popular that many camps have had to hire staff solely to take and upload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Tabs on Campers | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

...woman cadet works busily in her quarters, stopping to straighten her already drum-tight bunk. The door is open, not because a male cadet is visiting but because dozens of cadets keep filing back and forth from the corridor outside ... The woman is a top member of the cadet Brigade. A formation of her company is just now waiting for her outside the building. 'Hey, Mom, it's time,' calls one of the male cadets ... It's an affectionate nickname, a mark of respect for her record, which brought her a cadet promotion. Like many of the women at West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

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