Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly 2 million U.S. households own time-shares, paying an average of $10,500 for an annual week at a condominium in a hot spot like Florida or Hawaii. As operators have spruced up lodgings and given owners more flexibility, time-share sales have risen 14% a year, making them the fastest-growing part of the hospitality industry. Trusted brands like Marriott are expanding their offerings in what is globally a $6 billion- a-year business. To help you decide whether to join this parade, TIME asked some time-share veterans about their experiences...
Sticking criminals in prison protects citizens but throws no light on the process of how a person became criminal. If experts learn to spot tendencies that point toward criminal behavior, everyone can profit from the knowledge. Kaczynski seems likely to cooperate. "Let me try to explain it this way," he says. Let's listen up! FRANK E. NIESET Concord, Calif...
...kitchen to pick up her drink, then heads to the bathroom. Before the toilet finishes flushing, its sensors have completed a urinalysis and stool test. The information is automatically patched through to a secure website that contains all her medical records. If anything alarming, such as a spot of blood or some defective DNA, shows up, both she and her physician will receive a health-care alert. By the same token, if she ever falls ill while traveling, doctors can instantly punch up her records, using her medical ID card to gain access...
...influential forester Aldo Leopold wrote, "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are 40 freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" Fifty-four years later, it's not so easy to find wild country to be young in. For now, however, a few tracts of wilderness still endure. We should be grateful for this and appreciate them as long...
...money, for the exercise, for the adventure of it, but also because I want some of what my father and my uncle and my boss and Bob Dole get to look back on when they're 64: military days. I'm going to boot camp at the same spot where my dad went less willingly: Fort Jackson, in South Carolina. I hear the whole place is built on sand. Dad, who shares absolutely none of my excitement about this, has a story about a fellow grunt who thought he was Napoleon, was always standing on a hill, surveying...