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...war/so don't let your kitten out the door." Despite my intimidation tactics, he said he wasn't willing to give up the domain name. "You could probably get joelstein.net, he offered, like some sleazy real estate agent trying to sell me a beach house 10 blocks from the ocean. This was shaping up as the greatest fight for personal identity since Senator Paul Simon showed up on Saturday Night Live the same night as the singing Paul Simon. As an opening battle cry, I decided to mention joelstein.com in this column in hopes that the site gets so flooded...
...Heider and staff guide them to remote places on the island. "They know all the nooks and crannies," says Marsha. "What's nice is that when you get to some of the beaches they know about, no one else is there." Each week offers a boat excursion on the ocean to observe humpback whales and a trip to the mainland to spend time at Bar Harbor's oceanarium and its lobster hatchery. Along the shore, there are walks to learn about the creatures that reside in tidal pools. Says Heider: "We turn kids on at an early age to outdoor...
...even an ocean liner can change course, and in fall 1998, HLS launched the Strategic Planning Initiative (SPI) to chart the school's course in the coming years--a strategy Clark says incorporated improvement in student quality-of-life issues. The SPI is divided into five subcommittees, composed of professors, students and members of the administration...
...though hiding it quite well) candidates from bake sale to support group to school at a hundred different press conferences with equally bad lighting and equally stilted speeches, Bricka set off--unfettered by the petty questions of politics--into the wide blue yonder. He plans to walk the Pacific Ocean to Sydney, a trip which will take him across 7,800 miles in six months, provided he struggles forward at an average of 14 hours a day. One oceanographer was quoted in the New York Times as saying: "People are lost at sea every year because of this foolishness--this...
...feat by balancing himself with a double-sided paddle on a pair of cance-like skis--and for overnight trips, he uses as his "rest stop" the catamaran that he drags behind him and which is stocked with supplies. In 1988, Bricka walked 3,502 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to Trinidad--a stunt which landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest distance walked across water (though one has to wonder what kind of competition he was really getting in that category...