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...often enroll in a course at a local college or in a summer program at a competitive university to show that they can handle both the academic rigor and the social distractions of college life. Before their three college-bound, homeschooled children began making applications, the Heywood family of Durham, N.C., sent each child to a summer program at a highly ranked school: Oxford University in England or Williams or Amherst college in Massachusetts. "We chose to educate our kids at home because we weren't happy with what the local schools had to offer," says their father, John Heywood...
...love the sea, anything to do with it," said Chan Chandler of Durham, N.H. Chandler, who took a vacation day to be able to attend the parade, praised the "beautiful" weather but said he wished more of the sails could have been...
Somewhere in the book of sports wisdom/cliches it says to save your best for last. Harvard's four representatives took that adage to heart in the final meet of the year at this weekend's 2000 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Duke University in Durham...
...game's traditions. The field must have real turf, because in a world where so much changes for the worse, the game should stay the same. As Governor, Bush said as much in commencement speeches, citing "fixed stars" to live by. Star No. 4 paraphrased the film Bull Durham: "Baseball should always be played outdoors, on grass, with wooden bats...
...moment, anyway. Though the company's 1.7 million New York subscribers don't have much of a choice of cable providers - many city apartment buildings are not wired to receive satellite broadcasts - in markets like Milwaukee and Raleigh-Durham, viewers can relatively easily dismiss Time Warner in favor of satellite providers like Direct TV. And the cable giant may want to make amends quickly: After all, does Time Warner really have the stomach required to keep America away from its daily dose of Regis Philbin...