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...odds, in a way, were stacked against us from the start. Outdoor basketball requires sunlight, and too many of us are now employed, limiting our free time to weekends, if that. Others are taking summer classes or preparing for graduate school entrance exams. A couple of weeks ago, Kevin actually tore his MCL in a street fight. And a few are physically absent, gone to Boston and England. We live in stark contrast to a time when anyone who dared go on vacation with their family—leaving the rest of the crew a man down?...
...Although he ended up going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students learn the identification and uses of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists chant, dance...
...average, reports consultant David Sangree. Room revenue also jumps, because an indoor water park adds as much as $100 to the nightly room rate. At Great Wolf, as at most of the parks, admission is exclusive to hotel guests, a selling point for some customers. "I'd always avoided outdoor water parks, because they're usually so dirty, and I worry about health issues," says Michelle Lappas, who came to Great Wolf in Virginia from Connecticut with her husband and son. "But I was comfortable. It was a nice crowd, and it was clean, and with lifeguards posted everywhere...
...national parks, national forests, and the management of the natural world. On the other hand, Democrats would do just as well to note that Theodore Roosevelt saw man as part of nature and not as its opponent. As a rancher, big game hunter, fisherman and perhaps the most outdoor President in American history, TR believed that conservation included land use and not merely its preservation. I believe he would have resoundingly advocated a multiple use approach to Federal lands...
...invalidism by force of will. He ordered the boy to "make your own body." According to Theodore's sister, Theodore "resolved to make himself strong," to turn his back on his "nervous and timid" childhood and embrace manhood. The cure would come by way of sports and outdoor activity, mountains to be climbed and harsh weather to be endured...