Word: playground
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...Corporal Burns Playground, owned by the City of Cambridge, will be under renovation for upwards of a year, City Council members said yesterday...
RUNNER-UP Snow. Written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz A town full of skeptical, eccentrically shaped adults is transformed into a playground by the snow everyone says won't fall. What's not to love...
...early 1990s everybody was pulling for Gates, who proved that even an uber-nerd whom the rest of us beat up in the playground could make it big in the land of opportunity. But the world's richest man made the classic hubristic mistake: building what one newspaper called the "new Xanadu" and bragging about it. Gates' high-tech haven would top even Hearst's epically garish San Simeon as the most grandiose castle in America. But as Hearst once quipped of his estate--which housed, among other things, a large zoo--"Pleasure is what you can afford...
Depending on the season, the Fanjuls can be found shooting game in Scotland, skiing in Switzerland or relaxing at their spectacular Casa de Campo. These 7,000 acres overlooking the sea have long been a favorite playground of the wealthy. But Palm Beach is still their real home, and Florida is still the heart of their financial empire. They now farm an estimated 180,000 acres of cane-producing land in the Everglades--43% of the total--making them one of the two-largest sugar growers in the state...
Have you heard? The nation is now coping with another schoolhouse tragedy, this time in Castle Rock, Colo. Thankfully, no firearms were involved in the latest episode of playground violence. Nor did any of the pint-sized victims require serious medical attention. Nonetheless, we at Dartboard are horrified by what transpired at the Rock Ridge Elementary School on Wednesday...