Word: pays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look back wistfully at their own childhood, when playing sports was a matter of heading to the corner sandlot or the neighborhood park after school for a pick-up game. But the sandlot's been filled in by a four-bedroom Cape Cod with a two-story atrium. To pay for the Cape Cod, Mom and Dad are both working, and with Mom and Dad both working, the kids are signed up for extended-day sessions at school. And by the time extended-day is over, it's dusk. And even if Mom and Dad were home, they'd never...
...bucket and picked me out of it," explains Chantaneice Kitt, 8, who has been in the violin program for two years. The lottery is Roberta's way of asserting that music is for all children, not just the gifted or privileged. Her students--and her vocal cords--sometimes pay the price for her passion. "She gets on your case and stuff," says Toussaint Stackhouse, 9, "but I like her the way she is. When we need help, she helps...
About 20 years ago, out of school and footloose and broke, I decided I would pay a visit to my favorite writer, the essayist E.B. White, then residing, as he had for 50 years, on a saltwater farm along the coast of Maine. I was sure White would welcome the visit--after all, I reasoned, what ailing octogenarian writer doesn't long for the company of an unemployed 20-year-old houseguest with no visible means of support and no reason to leave?--but just as a courtesy, I decided to send him notice of my arrival. Already...
...confident that little Suzi's slumber-party guests aren't watching blue movies. In the world I live in, though, Suzi guesses that the access code is the same number you always use: your collie's birthday. She hacks into the system and orders Chainsaw Cheerleaders on pay-per-view...
Another question is how much ecotourists are truly willing to pay to keep the environment unspoiled. The government of the Seychelles has backed away from the $100 environmental fee it proposed to levy on each traveler this year to fund preservation efforts such as protecting the Vallee de Mai, a unique palm forest. In a recent study, 80% of Germans said an unspoiled environment was important to them, but only 40% were prepared to pay even $1 extra a day to help protect the environment of their holiday destination...