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...Dale used to love all that stuff back in Middletown, N.J., where he grew up and, at age 8, entered Pack 142 of the Cub Scouts. Then known as James Dick--he understandably had the name changed--he became a model scout, earning 30 merit badges as well as the coveted eagle scout rank. He was on a first-name basis with the older men who ran scouting locally, and he gladly gave speeches to civic groups extolling pinewood derbies and asking for donations. According to the rules, scouts stop being scouts at 18, but Dale quickly became an assistant...
...future enhancement of agriculture and medicine is not thought enough to merit conservation, then consider survival. The biosphere gives us renewed soils, energy, clean water and the very air we breathe, all free of charge. The more species that compose wild communities, the more stable and resilient becomes the planet as a whole...
Dogs don't have to bark a motto at Michigan's DOG SCOUTS OF AMERICA, but they can earn merit badges in backpacking and tracking. Dogs and their people work hard from morning to night, but they can also pursue less serious interests like painting lessons for the bow-wow set, games of musical chairs and an all-pooch band. Seminars teach emergency first aid and the use of herbal medicine for dogs...
...label of "a good movie". After leaving the theater, the film's publicist asked me what I thought, and playing it safe, I replied with the aforementioned catch-all phrase. She said that was everybody's reaction to the film so far, nobody zealously praising its merit or damning it straight to video release. The reason for the lukewarm reaction is that The Virgin Suicides has a character crisis. Lacking a central protagonist, the film keeps the viewer detached . There is no character that the audience can latch on to or place its empathy with. There are the five Lisbon...
Dunn said she and Knowles discussed changing the prize so it could be awarded on the basis of academic merit--a departure from the "citizenship' criteria of recent years, but still in keeping with the donors' original intentions...