Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the first warm breezy days of spring over a thousand days of southern California sunshine. Actually, I don't want a thousand days of any weather, which is what's particularly great about fall and spring. There are places where it's summer all the time, and places where it's winter all the time, but there's nowhere in the whole world where fall or spring is there to stay...
This is not to say that I don't spend many a dark cold Massachusetts day longing for summer in southern California, spring break in Florida, and intersessions in Cancun. I am perfectly willing to believe that people are genuinely happier and more relaxed in warm, sunny climates. But then I think of the first days after spring break, and it's finally nice outside, and everyone is so happy. What's more, as a friend remarked to me last spring, "everyone is so hot," with their souvenir tans and the sunshine on their short-sleeved arms. Would we appreciate...
...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
These findings support a study by Hoxby that was published this past summer. Her study sparked media interest with its declaration that students who attend elite universities are likely to earn higher salaries than graduates of lower-ranked schools...
...there's no competing against summer jobs in computers and technology, which are plentiful in today's surging economy...