Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hitting the beach, going to summer camp or just sitting around the house bored out of their skull. But for kids like Amy Simon, 9, of Mooresville, North Carolina, a new school year is just beginning. Last week Amy was in her air-conditioned fourth-grade science class at Park View Elementary, mixing together polyvinyl and Borax to make red, green and yellow slime. "If you have the whole summer off, you get bored," she says. Instead of a long summer vacation, Amy now goes to school year-round, with shorter but more frequent break periods. "Just when...
...reason for the seemingly topsy-turvy schedule is that Park View is one of 1,905 schools in the U.S. that are in session year-round. Praised by educators and parents as a way for students to learn better and schools to operate more efficiently, year-round schooling is steadily catching on. As of June 30, 1.4 million students were enrolled in year-round schools, from rural North Carolina to inner-city Detroit -- an increase from 429,000 five years ago. The largest number are in California; 42% of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the state...
Sometimes the measures are even more drastic. On Memorial Day weekend last year, holiday gridlock at Yosemite forced rangers to close gates, turning away more than 750 vehicles. As a last resort, other parks, including Mammoth Cave, sell reserved tickets through a commercial agency, Mistix. David Mihalic, the former superintendent of Mammoth who now heads Glacier park, thinks rationing makes perfect sense to people: "When you go to Cinema 6 and Terminator 2 is sold out, maybe you go see another movie." Sacrificing some human concerns for nature's well-being may not please everyone, but the loss of paradise...
...this trend continues, somebody will have to tell the salespeople, the ones who deal with customers face-to-face. To help this process along, Oldsmobile has opened a $25 million "Vision Center" in a nondescript industrial park outside Detroit. Inside, the facility resembles a movie sound stage, with flowing spaces and a spiffy, glass-walled showroom of the future. Large framed printed slogans (OLDSMOBILE'S FUTURE IS IN THE HANDS OF OUR CUSTOMERS) hang on the walls...
...Overland Park, Kansas...