Word: overnighting
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...wikis built on that idea. A wiki is a deceptively simple piece of software (little more than five lines of computer code) that you can download for free and use to make a website that can be edited by anyone you like. Need to solve a thorny business problem overnight and all members of your team are in different time zones? Start a wiki. In Silicon Valley, at least, wiki culture has already taken root. "A lot of corporations are using wikis without top management even knowing it," says John Seely Brown, the legendary former chief scientist at Xerox PARC...
...MEIR AMAR, 31, the wife and son of Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, one of two leaders of the state religious establishment; with abducting the Rabbi's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend; in Jerusalem. Meir has admitted to kidnapping the teenager at knifepoint and holding him overnight in an Arab village and later at the Rabbi's home, where he was allegedly beaten. But police suspect that it was done at the behest of his mother?something the family denies?who allegedly disapproved of the relationship. The Rabbi has not been implicated in the attack...
Russell Lyons sees things a bit differently. The 10-year-old from San Diego is hoping summer camp will help foster his career in the film industry. Last summer he spent a week at Pali Overnight Adventures' Hollywood Stunt Camp in California's San Bernardino Mountains. There he got professional instruction on taking 40-ft. free falls onto mats and choreographing fight scenes. Says Lyons, who already has an agent and occasionally leaves school early to go to auditions: "If I ever have to do my own stunts on a shoot, I'm ready...
...enthusiasm of campers is shifting toward such camps and away from those that offer a range of general-interest activities. "If a child can explore something he's passionate about at age 10, like photography, he's got a head start," says Barry Vigon, camp director for Pali Overnight Adventures, which, in addition to Hollywood Stunt Camp, operates Secret Agent Camp, Acting Academy, Spa Camp and Rock Star Camp (price: $1,435 for a one-week session). "We've come to realize that camp is much more than recreation," says Marla Coleman, past president of the American Camp Association...
...aspect of modern childhood: short attention spans. Camper Lyons is still hoping for a film career, but, according to his mother Leslye Winkelman Lyons, he's interested in "10 other things as well," so this summer he plans to move on from stunt work and attend another of Pali Overnight Adventures' programs, this one in culinary arts, run by a former chef to the Saudi royal family. As he did last summer, Lyons will spend his mornings receiving special instruction and his afternoons participating in his choice of such activities as paintball and swimming. His mother says she appreciates...