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...time to go." AMY VANDERBILT, spokeswoman at Glacier National Park in Montana, where wildfires threatened the edge of the park and prompted the evacuation of thousands of campers...
...spit fire, crashed a music-awards show - and won a nightly following of more than 75,000, all for "just six people with a couple of digital-video cameras," says producer Wouter Rengelink. Heineken provided the stars' salaries and 16 crates of beer - "R and D investment," says a spokeswoman - but had no editorial control and only a credit at the end of each episode. An entire low-budget series can be created for $500,000, less than it can cost to produce a top-quality TV ad. This is something Heinz realized when it made Dinner Doctors on Britain...
...line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered since the scheme began. "Through this project, Neapolitans are showing a huge amount of pride," says Giovanna Torcia, spokeswoman for the city's subway authority. "If we educate people about beauty, they want to keep things beautiful...
...because of the ongoing uncertainty about who owns the property. But it defends its decision to get involved in developing the property itself. "We didn't just want short-term liquidity from a quick sale, but a higher level of profitability from being involved in the development," says a spokeswoman. That's a controversial policy. "What is the state doing in the role of developer, anyway?" gripes Klaus Groenke, a Berlin developer whose €110 million bid for the Leipziger Platz site was turned down because TLG wanted to be involved...
...weekend away with Grandma or Grandpa is also a natural way to dispel stereotypes about aging. "Many kids today aren't around older people on a regular basis," says Cady Goldfield, a spokeswoman for Elderhostel, which offers almost 200 intergenerational summer programs. "To see Grandpa rappelling down a water tower or Grandma hiking up a mountain--better yet, to do it with them--is to see how vital and energetic the current population of grandparents is. It breaks all the rules for the traditional grandparent-grandchild interaction...