Word: parks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game just for the money. Eric Margenau bought into Indiana's South Bend White Sox last year, soon after his son Max was born. Says he: "I had visions of sitting in the front row, watching a game, me and my boy." The priceless pleasures of the ball park also attracted Craig Stein, a real estate developer who is an owner of the Reading Phillies of Pennsylvania and the Memphis Chicks. Says he: "Nobody likes development. You're the bad guy. In baseball, at the end of the night, you go home and feel good about what...
...bathers driven from the surf by the floating filth, it was as if something precious -- their beach, their ocean -- had been wantonly destroyed, like a mindless graffito defacing a Da Vinci painting. Susan Guglielmo, a New York City housewife who had taken her two toddlers to Robert Moses State Park, was practically in shock: "I was in the water when this stuff was floating around. I'm worried for my children. It's really a disgrace." Said Gabriel Liegey, a veteran lifeguard at the park: "It was scary. In the 19 years I've been a lifeguard, I've never...
...more than 70% of the world's surface, have an inexhaustible capacity to neutralize contaminants, by either absorbing them or letting them settle harmlessly to the sediment miles below the surface. "People think 'Out of sight, out of mind,' " says Richard Curry, an oceanographer at Florida's Biscayne National Park. The popular assumption that oceans will in effect heal themselves may carry some truth, but scientists warn that this is simply not known. Says Marine Scientist Herbert Windom of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography: "We see things that we don't really understand. And we don't really have...
Throughout most of a sleek new office park in Elmsford, N.Y., just half an hour's drive north of New York City, a visitor imagines that harried M.B.A.s sit at their terminals poring over electronic spreadsheets. But at 525 Executive Boulevard, a more exciting menu is on call. Instead of crunching numbers, a group of men and women crunch on praline, and instead of computer screens, they stare into oven windows. A thin figure in a tall toque waves a blade. "All the time be rocking the knife," he says with a Germanic accent to an intent group of onlookers...
...imaginary excursion to the Moon of Endor. They are rewarded with a nonstop thrill ride in which a mock spaceship climbs, banks and even reaches the speed of light -- all with white-knuckle realism. "This is easily the most popular ride," says Bob Roth, manager of publicity for the park. "On a roller coaster, you have the lingering feeling that the car can go off the tracks. Star Tours gives you all the thrills without the insecurity...