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Your article brought back fond memories of Neil Armstrong. I was 12 years old in 1969 sitting in my uncle's front yard in Wapakoneta, Ohio, watching the parade honoring the hometown hero. My parents recall years earlier when the first man on the moon wrecked his single-engine plane in their backyard and came to the house to ask to use the phone. James McEvoy, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM...
...preponderance of secular women-only chains like Curves and Linda Evans Fitness. This non-religious attitude toward gender-segregated exercise neatly sets immigration politics aside, and has created a way for Americans from Muslims countries to retain their piety without seeming to embrace separation. I have fond memories of following my mother around her local Linda Evans center in California, watching Pakistani matrons and white soccer moms chat while stride energetically on long rows of treadmills...
...There you have it, the conclusion of a four-week, five-park journey into introspection and self-discovery. The decision did not come easily, and just when I thought I could safely discard one team, I suddenly remembered a fond memory from my experience. But in the end, I had to make up my mind. Leo Durocher once said, “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” I was a diligent attendee—partook of the stadium chow, greeted my fellow parishioners, and thanked the baseball gods for good weather?...
...commercial success - recounted his backbreaking years teaching English and creative writing, 18 of them spent at New York's famous magnet school Stuyvesant, where he was a legend as a compelling teacher. "George Bernard Shaw said those that can do, and those that can't teach," McCourt was fond of observing. "Just goes to show that Shaw didn't know his arse from his elbow about teaching." Although he often spoke of a novel in progress, it has never been published. (See Richard Corliss's review of the movie version of Angela's Ashes...
...Andrew have been friends since college, but now that they're in their 30s, that friendship has become mostly a fond memory, now close to dormancy. Ben (Mark Duplass) has been busy making a life for himself in Seattle, acquiring a steady job, a house and a wife - doe-eyed Anna (Alycia Delmore), who is warm and kind and really gets him. Andrew (Joshua Leonard) is one of those carefree, just-back-from-Machu Picchu types, reliable mostly for being unreliable. Both men are at that stage of life where the costumes they've been trying on are about...