Word: involvedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To most parents involved in kids' sports, all the criticisms sound like the dreariest party-poopery. There are joys that can't be organized, pleasures that resist the rigors of systematization. And these remain unextinguished, even in the overwrought world of kids' sports today. In Morristown, N.J., at the Beard...
BUY A CD, DO SOME GOOD You might enjoy shopping online because you can buy underwear while wearing even less, but it can satisfy your altruistic impulses too. At least four sites invite you to identify a nonprofit organization or school you'd like to help. When you purchase something...
The result is that many traditional extracurricular activities, from basketball leagues to math clubs and choirs, have all but disappeared from inner-city schools. "If you're a child growing up in a poor community, your chances of being involved in an after-school activity are almost none," says Geoffrey...
"It takes real chops to do this stuff," raves her director, Joe Mantello. It takes chops for Flockhart even to sit for an interview these days, since it usually means having to defend her eating habits to total strangers. (She's thin, folks.) But talking in quiet, manicured tones in...
"I don't think either Harvard or Radcliffe really appreciated how much work was going to be involved in so many areas," Taylor said. "We're cooperating, and things are on track."