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...They separate for ten months at a time and then meet again and so they have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school...
During a Hong Kong summer in the late 1960s, there are reports of bombs exploding in the streets, rumors of dead bodies floating "down the Pearl River, from the fighting in Canton," and the buzz of an increasing onslaught from the "Red" East: "Little Red Books of Mao Zedong's edicts wave in the air. Red bursts of firecrackers. Red drums. Red Guards." In this summer in the city Alice Greenway sets her slim and lyrical debut novel, White Ghost Girls. Greenway's book depicts the coming-of-age of two American girls, Kate and Frankie. Amidst the faint rumblings...
...worth of hockey (223:28) as part of a stellar senior season. Boe wound up with a .922 save percentage, 2.11 goals against average, and four shutouts to add to her school-record total. Still looking for a berth in the national playoffs, the Crimson ventured north to Canton, N.Y., home of top-seeded St. Lawrence. Harvard continued its recent dominance of the Saints, upending them in a stunning 3-1 semifinal upset on the strength of two goals from junior Liza Solley and a 40-save effort from Boe.Then, in the final against Brown, the Crimson rebounded from...
What may accelerate the trend is that some pioneering U.S. corporations, swamped by rising health-care costs, are taking a serious look at medical outsourcing. Blue Ridge Paper Products of Canton, N.C., a manufacturing company, may soon offer employees outsourcing as a health-care option. The carrot? The patient would get to pocket some of the firm's substantial savings...
Although the Tunit should help Adidas, some investors fear that getting a much larger shoe to fit could distract the company from pressing the advantage in soccer: its $3.8 billion purchase of Reebok, the struggling Canton, Mass., sporting-goods company. Although the merger helps Adidas gain market share and nudge closer to Nike overall, right now it's a drag on earnings: Reebok's orders declined 22% in the fourth quarter of 2005 owing to weak products and anxiety about Adidas' strategy for the brand. "Mind boggling," says John Shanley, an analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group...