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...little desire to spend the week searching for beach towel space among throngs of other well-oiled and intoxicated people our own age. In pursuit of sun and sand without the MTV Beach House backdrop, we abandoned the college spring break scene and headed out on a inter-generational adventure. (Anyway, staying with the relatives is the easiest way to be cost effective...
...take the little restaurant on the beach at Xia Xia, a great sweep of sand running for miles north of Maputo. Nuno Fonseca and his second wife Paola spent the war years in Maputo but came back to her largely destroyed hometown in early 1994. Once there were swank hotels along the strand for tourists. "When we got here there was nothing, nothing," says Nuno...
...shots have been falling, as have Suzie'sand Megan's," Brandt said. "We're all confidentshooters, and I'm psyched about the opportunity.The pressure is huge, but that's sports, and I'vebeen training for 16 years preparing for thatpressure...
...same token, we ought not stick our heads in sand and refuse to learn from the study. This is a clear reminder, if not a wake-up call, that our educational program is not tip-top. President Clinton is rightly convinced that national standards are the way out of the current mess. At a New York City fundraiser in January, the President explained his reasoning: "We cannot pretend, if we have a truly progressive vision of the future, that we can ever achieve what we want to achieve unless we hold our children--all of our children--without regard...
...beach in Florida, strolling on a hot, muggy night in October. Her coach was nowhere in sight, but Michelle Kwan still had only one thing on her mind: skating. Very quickly she transformed the soft sand into an accomplice to ice. First, she turned one foot on its side and walked on it for a minute, then she switched to the other foot and did the same. There was a reason for the bizarre exercise, she explained to TIME. "Sometimes when you don't land a jump properly, even if you're a little crooked, you can still have...