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...York City. A student at the University of Denver, she had planned on trips to Central Park, classes at New York University and lots of good books for her "last summer to hang out, be a kid." But after guidance counselors warned her that she had better shape up her resume, Sandoval made a last-minute search for a job, sending off applications to the parks and recreation department, the U.N. and even the sanitation department. No luck so far, but she could always try Rockaway Beach. We checked--there's an opening for a lifeguard...
...shift about to begin, Phoenix police officer Marc Atkinson asks his wife if she knows something he doesn't, the way she keeps telling him to be careful. Yes, maybe she does. Maybe they both know something, but it has no shape. It is the same thing officer Scott Masino's wife feels when she tells him at about the same time that she doesn't want him to go to work. Something unknowable haunts...
Over the course of our visits to the Gallaghers earlier this year, I noticed a gigantic toothbrush gradually taking shape in their living room. Finally, I just had to ask what was going on. It turned out that their son John, a seventh-grader, was putting together a skit with a group of other kids. Their short play was loosely based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, except that it was set inside a gigantic mouth, and the main characters were teeth. The theme involved not a tumultuous relationship but the invention of the electric toothbrush. Yet part...
...Mostly it was just about getting in better physical shape--working out every day," she said...
Some high-level administrators who helped shape the initial agreement, however, are out of town...