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Disney has even begun adults-only trips. No wonder. When we arrived in Europe and met 20 other family travelers, I did have a moment of terror imagining being trapped with this many children on a bus. But our group soon bonded by way of carriage rides, strudel-making lessons, fencing demonstrations and castle tours. As the junior passengers rolled their eyes at us, we adults were busy on the bus enjoying sing-alongs of Disney tunes. It was our inner children we were really taking on vacation--the kids were simply along for the ride...
...full name was Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. The daughter of a French military officer stationed in Casablanca, she was born there on June 13, 1935. That also happens to be the birth date of the Bulgarian artist Christo, whom Jeanne-Claude met in Paris in 1958. At the time, Christo was already making enigmatic wrapped artworks out of things like packages and oil drums. It was a gesture rooted in the Surrealist insight that it was possible to make familiar objects unfamiliar--and by that token strangely fascinating. The two would soon marry and form a creative partnership...
...loved the illustration of the Chinese educational system as told through the story of 7-year-old Liu. Although Liu's parents work, he is met each afternoon by his grandparents, who are active participants in his after-school activities. Liu was surrounded by his extended family at his great-grandmother's 90th birthday party before he headed to his Saturday classes. I was struck by how enriched he must be--not just by his teachers but also by his family...
...Maybe their journey seemed more natural to me than to others because it was so parallel to mine,” the father says. “I wanted to marry Billy’s mom the first week I met her, so as the next step in their relationship it seemed perfectly right...
...Began dating Raffaele Sollecito, 25, whom she met at a classical-music concert in mid-October 2007 in Italy; Sollecito, an Italian engineering student, is also charged in Kercher's murder...