Word: grass
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...home prices have lept 50% since the 1990s (condo prices have risen 57%) and why fewer than an estimated fifth of Californians can afford a median-priced home in their state. Developers complain that when investors snatch up units pre-construction and then sell them off before the sodded grass is even put down, it essentially means the developer ends up competing with the flippers for sales within his own development. At the same time, families and other buyers who don't have the time or wherewithal to play this game usually end up paying a higher price than they...
...starts dealing marijuana to bored salarymen. Soon Nancy discovers a whole illicit world of suburban toking: a young dealer gripes to her that his inventory was tapped out by stoners watching the bird documentary Winged Migration at the multiplex. Far from hardening her, her tiptoe into the grass has Nancy "beginning to think I am extremely naive...
...Cruising Check to see if your cruise line is a member of the Cruise Industry Charitable Foundation, which provides support for ocean research and preservation efforts as well as scholarships for kids in the areas where the ships do business. Mountain Travel Sobek This adventure-trip organizer works with grass-roots outfits to boost the local economy in countries like India and Sri Lanka. In China it supports the Nature Conservancy by training locals to be Yangtze River guides. Other Ways To Help Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys...
Across the country, similar grass-roots groups, courses and programs are popping up as 50-plus adults grapple with a period some call "the power years," "my time," "refirement," "the bonus years"--anything but the R word. Through informal gatherings over coffee at Starbucks or $1,000 life-planning courses with speakers, homework and skills assessments, these initiatives provide help for retirees and preretirees who have nowhere else to go for information, moral support and camaraderie during one of life's trickier transitions...
...cheerleaders from Henderson Middle School in East Texas are sitting on the grass at Southern Methodist University looking glumly at their sneakers as they're sized up by their "sponsor," who serves as unpaid coach, chaperone and shoulder to cry on. "Stunts, good. Cheer, good. But your spacing was off," says Tangela Washington. Her tone isn't angry, though it might sound harsh to a 13-year-old. The squad is about to face its first evaluation at a three-day summer camp run by the National Cheerleaders Association. "We've got to work like a team," Washington stresses...