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...impressions of students here about Harvardare what they might have been by American studentsyears ago," says R. Scott Muir, guidance counselorat the International School of Brussels, where thestudent body comes from more than 60 countries...
Megan Kellar is bubbly and bouncing and lip-synching to the Backstreet Boys. Get down, get down and move it all around! The sixth-grader is dancing to the synthesized bubble-gum beat at a talent show at the John Muir Elementary School in Parma, Ohio. Get down, get down and move it all around! There is nothing down about Megan, even as she gets down in front of the audience. Her mother remembers a similar effervescence half a dozen years ago. "She'd be singing to herself and making up songs all the time," says Linda Kellar. And sure...
After trekking much of the West, Muir settled in Martinez, 35 miles northeast of San Francisco, co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892 and served as its president until his death at 76 in 1914. In Martinez, visitors can roam the grounds of the John Muir National Historic Site; hike Mount Wanda, named after one of Muir's daughters; and snack on ripe fruit from the orchard that helped bankroll his conservation activities. In Muir's 17-room mansion, young children will enjoy seeing the toys that belonged to Muir's daughters; older kids will gravitate to the "scribble...
...Muir was a serious student of natural science, but his contemporary Mark Twain was a class comedian whose best subject was human nature. Twain tried his luck at mining in the little gold town of Angels Camp, a 2 1/2-hour drive east of Martinez; a replica of his one-room shack sits on top of Jackass Hill. His comical tale of a compulsive bettor, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, made Twain a household name and inspired an annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, held the third weekend in May in Angels Camp. Current world record...
...hours east of Angels Camp is Yosemite, beloved by Muir and, judging from the crowds, by the rest of the world as well. Make reservations for stays of overnight or longer and arrive early in the day. The best way to escape the hordes is to borrow a page from Muir and take a hike. There are a multitude of trails to choose from, but Yosemite Falls, one of Muir's favorite features, is a good destination. "When the afternoon sunshine is streaming through the throng of comets, ever wasting, ever renewed," Muir wrote of the falls, "the marvelous fineness...