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...passing La Guira, something recklessly symbolic happens. At the bottom of a small valley, there is a split second when a huge, bulbous green army truck passes us, heading in the other direction. At the same instant, we are passing on our right a straw-hatted farmer on horseback and, to our left, a woman on a bicycle. Symbolism contained: each of our vehicles represents a different element of what makes Cuba Cuba. The bicycle (1) is the Cubans' resourcefulness and symbiosis with their communist brethren (about a million bikes were donated by the Chinese, decades ago). The army truck...
...Elizabeth grabs an armful of freshly returned cassettes and begins to stow them. "Putting the videos away is so monotonous," she says. But she is making $5.90 an hour and claims her work here "is really easy." Between Hollywood Video and nearby Kraus Farms Equestrian Center, where she teaches horseback riding, Elizabeth works 40 hours a week. This year she plans to earn $14,400--nearly what her mother makes as a bank teller...
...have to sacrifice varsity field hockey. And earning so much money made her, at least for a while, rethink her college choices. While she once saw Meramec Community College as the "slacker way out," she actually considered spending two years of college there in order to continue teaching horseback riding. Her mother convinced her otherwise...
...prepare, I ran up miles of hills carrying a 10-lb. volume of Shakespeare on my back and searched the Internet for information about adventure racing, a fast-growing sport in which small teams navigate over long, difficult courses by kayak or mountain bike, on foot and on horseback. I'm training with members of the Charles Schwab Adventure Racing Club, who believe the sport does wonders for corporate esprit and performance...
...Houston last November was made easier because a relocation company hired by his employer personally took him and his wife Elena, 46, to search for a private school for their daughter Alexandra, 12. The relocation company even helped the Adlers find a stable where Alexandra could continue her horseback riding. Adler, who is director of forecasting for Minute Maid, a division of the Coca-Cola Co., has gone through about five relocations during his 23 years with the company. "In the past, we might have been given a list of private schools, but that's it," Adler says...