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...organized games for kids. Last year Paris Plage drew 2.3 million visitors. Even for those who insist on the traditional long getaway - those who each summer confront roads, airways, terrorism, disease, salmonella, stretched budgets and local males with stretch jeans and tmt (too much testosterone) - the European vacation spirit is unconquerable. The thing about vacations is that recollection of the bad bits fades in direct proportion to exaggeration of the good bits. Says German researcher Opaschowski, "Tourists have chronic short-term memory." No sooner are we back at the desk than we start daydreaming, planning like hordes of Houdinis...
...body and soul of the city? Potsdamer Platz was destroyed during and after the war and became the no man’s land between the walls. It presents the unique opportunity to start completely fresh and to revolutionize the conception of its urban center. To revive the spirit of progress and modernity infused with the unique character that once existed once existed in the space is like trying to transplant new organs into an aged body. Yet Potsdamer Platz hopes to become at least the modern equivalent of its former self and has begun on that path with...
...We’ve got spirit, yes we do! We’ve got spirit—how ’bout you?” they shout in chorus, pointing at a neighboring table on the snap of the last syllable. The commotion has turned nearly every head in the room, and now without an instant’s hesitation the neighboring students repeat the chant, their fingers pointing in a new direction...
Pasternack and another teacher, dressed in costume hats, colorful sunglasses and oversized T-shirts, hold the stage as Spirit Girl and Spirit Boy and present the day’s Spirit Awards to two girls who had distinguished themselves in the classroom...
Howard recognizes Pollard as a kindred spirit for his stubborn steed and takes him in, becoming a kind of surrogate father to the angry, abandoned Red. "You kind of see his safe, secure, loving world get crushed, and you see his boyishness just drain out of him," Maguire explains. "He toughens up and withdraws and keeps himself guarded. And then you see that melt away again as he becomes part of this family." Watching Red slowly learn to trust those around him, you realize that Maguire has taken his standard boy-becomes-man routine and subverted it. He plays...