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...forward notion has already spread. After meeting with Hyde last year, sixth-graders at Hill Middle School in Novato, Calif., surged into action: helping elderly neighbors with Christmas-tree lights, singing carols at convalescent homes and filming a video to explain the concept. Two rival inner-city schools in New York City joined together to paint a huge mural depicting their ideas. Even a few adults have caught the spirit. After reading the book, Doris Eakes, 62, of North Carolina endowed four small colleges with a $4.2 million trust (expected to grow into more than $20 million in her lifetime...
...think your writer Steve Lopez would think the concept of a drive-through strip joint was so funny if it was in his neighborhood [STEVE LOPEZ'S AMERICA, Oct. 2]! There are already two nude dance clubs in Salem Township. How many do you need in a community of 7,500 people? I can't believe the owner of the Climax Gentleman's Club believes he is in the "entertainment business." P.T. Barnum would turn over in his grave to have his name mentioned in connection with this article. LINDA FREY Apollo...
...Admittedly one does need stamina to play cricket. Professional games at the local level last three days. And international games between teams representing two nations (a concept which is understandably alien to baseball fans) stretch over five days. There is a reason for this. The English (who devised cricket and exported it to what was then its empire) are not a very spiritual nation. So cricket was invented as a way of defining infinity...
...much control do you have in developing that concept [for your show...
...This idea of 'launching' our children is a purely American concept," notes psychologist Pauline Boss, author of Ambiguous Loss. "We don't really launch our kids, as if into outer space: they stay connected. Now that kids often move far away," she adds, "leaving stuff with parents can be an unconscious way to maintain their roots...