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...trip to Petco cost $5.25 a child for the bus ride, says Woodside teacher Stacey Melhorn, while a zoo visit can cost $15. "When it's free, it's easier for everybody," says Melhorn. Says Dan Fuller, director of federal programs for the National School Boards Association: "In a perfect world, schools would have the funds to send kids to where they feel is the most educationally appropriate...
...Thread (the area's only organic producer), Standing Stone and Red Newt. Among the preferred west-side wineries are Fox Run and the rightfully acclaimed Hermann J. Wiemer. Try to snare a room at the Geneva on the Lake resort, a real beauty equipped with pool and croquet, the perfect balm after a hard day on the wine trails...
...this makes the perfect setting for an America in which Rush Limbaugh can be a recovering druggie and conservative icon--an America that wants the binge and the purge, the sin and the penitence, all in one neon package. Until we find a better metaphor for our split moral personality, what happens in Vegas will stay ... on TV. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
Looking for the perfect way to light an outdoor summer party and enhance your garden? Forget tangled strings of lights and kerosene-fueled torches. Dutch designer Rob Slewe has come up with a mod approach: flowerpots that double as outdoor lights. Bloom! is a 23-in.-high recycled plastic pot with four LED lights inside. Not only does it provide a soft glow to any outdoor environment, but it also holds plants and is energy efficient (drawing a maximum of just 6 watts). Fill it with ice and chill cold drinks or cover the top with plate glass and create...
When Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air came out in 1997--within a month of each other, as it happened--we rediscovered the joy of reading about very bad things happening to real people, preferably in exotic locales. Maybe it's because we never feel quite so warm and comfy in our poolside deck chairs, fruity cocktail in hand, as when we're reading a true-life yarn about somebody else drowning or freezing to death or doing both simultaneously...