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...less tourist-oriented countries of Eastern Europe, both the inconvenience and the rewards are magnified. Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
...today, Bonnie prescribes a Nutty Buddy ice cream cone on the walk home, then a few drops of Sweet Oil for the affected ear. She makes an appointment at the clinic for the morning. Then she sets Tina up with a thermometer in her mouth and her homework in front of her. "Come on now," she says, urging a pencil on the child. "You're not that sick...
...broken homes, poverty: today's classroom is a mirror of the crises that afflict the U.S. as a whole. Even the children of two-earner, middle-class couples can suffer from lack of attention, if only because neither Mom nor Dad has the time or energy to help with homework or attend PTA meetings...
...readiest child of the week was the schoolgirl swimmer Janet Evans, 17, winsome, lithesome and as single-minded as a shark. She ditched the homework she brought from California, but plans to offer the excuse that she had to sing The Star-Spangled Banner three times. After so many trips onto the podium, Evans concluded, "It's always the same -- pure honor." The littlest mermaid sees everything in a race, but nobody can see her. She makes you want to fish her out of the surf somehow, and hoist her up some way, to uncover just what she really does...
...really teach, anyway," Tyndall says. "It's a very relaxed sort of thing--just in-class with no big assignments. Some of the classes are very regimented with homework and papers, but I don't have time for that...