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...when other kids were going to the playground, Gardiner and her siblings spent Maine's harsh winters learning about state government...
...Kimberly-Clark will spend $2 million to help build 37 playgrounds nationwide. The company and a nonprofit contractor named KaBoom! have set up design sites where children can draw or model in Play-Doh the kind of playground they would like. Parents, Kimberly-Clark volunteers and the contractor will work to get the playgrounds built...
...this new playground, each customer converts cash into a "smart card" of, say, $10, which allows you to play any of 200 games, or to buy a latte or a tray of Cajun fries. A typical game costs $1.25 a play. Upstairs there's an Internet lounge where you can surf the Web for 12[cents] a minute or pursue retro-tech avocations such as pinball and air hockey while you sip a beer made at GameWorks' very own brewery...
...winter touring. A busy weekend will see 2,000 snowmobilers buzzing the approaches to Old Faithful, their engines filling the subzero air with a cacophony of chain-saw whines and casting a blue haze against the stands of lodgepole pines. "We are turning a national park into a national playground," complains D.J. Schubert, a biologist for the Fund for Animals, which is threatening to sue the Interior Department...
...genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs--physically robust, psychologically assertive--and ectomorphs--skinny, nervous, shy. But even if these generalizations hold some water, it needn't mean that ectomorphs have genes for shyness. It may just mean that skinny people get pushed around on the junior-high playground and their personality adapts. (This is one problem with those identical-twins-reared-apart studies by behavioral geneticists: Do the twins' characters correlate because of "character genes" or sometimes just because appearance shapes experience which shapes character...