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...Lobster is a cheery face to come home to," the junior said. "And she never complains about homework...
...down in a Davidson dorm and are awakened each morning at 6 by one of the 19 college-age counselor-mentors who live there with them. The schedule is intensive: classes run from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and youngsters are required to be in their rooms doing homework until 10 p.m. The packed curriculum includes lessons twice a week in leadership, spiritual development and "wellness," a catchall term for such subjects as sexuality and drug use. "Students can't graduate if they're pregnant or addicted," explains wellness instructor Georgia Ringle. "And these kids are at risk...
...alligator skins, is a likely topic for novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen (Far Tortuga; The Snow Leopard). Matthiessen has made the despoliation of the planet, as well as the ways in which men who work close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with their otter pelts for gunpowder and whisky. The rookeries over by Lake Okeechobee, they was shot...
...mass. Africa, hands down the toughest nut, warrants four weeks. "It's got a lot of little countries and weird names," explains Sara Stonberg. There are no tricks to this process, which is the point. Students spend two hours in class each week and another couple of hours on homework, learning the old-fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually...
Before making his fateful decision to sink $1 billion into the bejeweled Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, Donald Trump should have done his homework on the ill fortune that befell the builder of the original Taj. The cost of constructing the 17th century Indian marvel, which took 20,000 laborers 22 years to complete, eventually exhausted the royal treasury of the Shahjahan and triggered the decline of the Mogul Empire. Nearly 350 years later, the Taj's modern namesake may have unleashed the grandiose downfall of Manhattan's self-styled King of the Deal...