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Once they had recruited the right people, they needed the right message, and here it was the Democrats who thought they had the upper hand. On July 19, Frist's committee hosted a retreat for donors at the West Virginia resort Greenbrier. That day alone, the stock market slid 390 points; the White House was bracing for the mid-August restatement of corporate income, which was expected to increase pressure on Bush to crack down on the kind of people who had assembled at the resort. "It felt like a funeral," recalls Bainwol. Democrats were calling for the scalp...
Cooking classes for youngsters are now available across the country--in cookware stores, at cooking schools, in your home. "Children know much more about food than they did 10 years ago," says Riki Senn, the cooking-school coordinator at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulfur Springs, W.Va. Her school offers gourmet-cooking classes for children during the summer, teaching recipes for treats like fruit salsa and chocolate-dipped strawberries...
Chopping and sauteing are gender-blind activities, and boys are now just as likely as girls to take cooking classes. "It's pretty much even in the classes," says Greenbrier's Senn. Many of these youngsters--particularly the boys--discovered the pleasures of cooking from watching TV. In January the Food Network's share of viewers ages 2 to 11 was up 67% on weekend mornings over the past year. "The popularity of the Food Network and the rising perception of the chef as celebrity have made a huge difference," says Senn. Many of the chefs are male, and they...
Commercial deals encourage teachers and administrators to make decisions based on non-educational considerations. For example, Greenbrier High School in Evans, Ga. made international news in March 1998 when Principal Gloria Hamilton suspended senior Mike Cameron for disrupting the school's "Coke in Education Day." Greenbrier High was competing to win the $10,000 prize offered by the Coca-Cola Company to the high school that developed the best plan for marketing Coke-sponsored promotional business discount cards. On that day in March, Cameron, along with 1,200 or so of his classmates, was lined up in the school parking...