Word: sailboating
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SOME OF CATHY DEALE'S BEST-SELLING products have nautical and shell motifs, even though many of the Zulu women who embroider them have never even seen the ocean, let alone a sailboat. But they don't seem to mind. Thanks to Deale's importing business, the craftswomen near Durban, South Africa, are living much better than ever before...
...that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian” manner, cold-calling students and moving on abruptly if he deemed their answers less than satisfactory. Moore was an avid sailor and, according to Walder, would spend around six months per year living alone on his sailboat, which was docked in Maine. Moore was also known to invite his favorite few students to his house to dine with him and his wife, Betty, a few times a year. “He could be very warm and engaging on those occasions when he invited...
...field trip to its students each fall, rotating among destinations to allow concentrators to visit three different sites by the time they graduate. In addition to visiting Hawaii, students also study how mountains are formed in the Canadian Rockies and observe weather patterns and take ocean samples from a sailboat in the Gulf of California...
...DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam veteran launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop-dusting, and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation, which notably set up a fund to send underprivileged children to private schools...
DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the tiny, home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam vet launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop dusting and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation...