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...first residential camps to offer computers as an activity back in the early 1980s. And five years ago, it became one of the first to offer e-mail. "It satisfies some of the need for instant gratification that both parents and kids feel," says owner-director Buzz Ebner. Each child has an individual account and can receive and send e-mails during free time on the camp's 11 networked terminals. Any problems? Sometimes parents become alarmed when their child fails to respond promptly to their e-mail--usually because he is too busy with camp activities...
Since then, thousands of other camps have begun to follow Ebner's lead. "In the past couple of summers e-mail has become a hot ticket," says Jeff Solomon, executive director of the National Camp Association, who estimates that as many as 75% of the nation's 6,000 residential summer camps offer e-mail access of some kind, up from just a handful a few years ago. "Camps have always wanted to respond to parents' concern that there be good communication. Mail is a little too slow for parents and phone a little too immediate for camps...
...than beef. Beef aficionados also claim the big birds tend to be dry and lack the savor of a juicy entrecote. European ostrich farmers are nonetheless ecstatic over their newly thriving business. Some Austrian producers are suddenly facing a fivefold jump in demand. "I'm sold out," says Gerhard Ebner. "I've never known so much public interest in ostrich meat...
...Backstroke 1. Gretchen Ebner, Boston University, 2:03.00*#; 2. Denise Sonntag, Penn State, 2:04.42; 3. Anna Martens, Columbia, 2:05.18; 4. Sheila Findley, HARVARD, 2:05.88; 6. Kaari Reierson, HARVARD, 2:08.41; 8. Fiona Fox, HARVARD...
...backstroke, the title and Eastern record went to Gretchen Ebner of B.U. with her time of 2:03.00. Harvard's Sheila Findley posted a record time in trials, but could not repeat her performance in the finals and finished fourth. Nonetheless, her morning time of 2:03.02 qualified her for the NCAA Championships as well as the Olympic trials...