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Kennebunkport was not always a summer mob scene. When Bush's maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker built his house in 1903, the town was a quiet refuge for well-heeled gentry from New York and Boston. They built sprawling "cottages" along Ocean Avenue and played tennis at the River Club, while the natives fished and built ships on the Kennebunk River. Life remained peaceful until a decade or so ago, when the southern coast of Maine was discovered by tourists and developers. Dock Square used to have a gas station, a hardware store, a market, a movie theater. They...
Some focus heroically on the bright side. "It's exciting," says Monroe Scharff, a Bush neighbor. "How often do you find a beautiful place that is ; also the summer residence of the President of the United States?" And selectman Joe Finn trumpets, "We've been in the London Times and the Hong Kong Daily News...
...with basic scientific concepts. Last year he and some colleagues produced a half-hour film titled A Private Universe in which half a dozen Harvard seniors were asked on graduation day to explain why there are seasons. All blithely described how the earth is closer to the sun in summer and farther away in winter. Wrong. The seasons result from the tilt of the earth's axis relative to its orbit. When the sun is highest in the sky, we have summer. In fact, the earth is closest to the sun in January...
Like a remarkably rugged, durable automobile, America's economy has motored through some of the harshest possible conditions without losing its momentum. The recovery has dodged hazards ranging from the October 1987 stock-market crash to last summer's drought. The longevity of the expansion, one of the Reagan Administration's proudest legacies, defies all odds. During the past 130 years, the U.S. economy has suffered a recession on the average of once every 4.3 years. But the current growth period, now entering its seventh year, is by far the longest peacetime boom in U.S. history. The economy, says Lawrence...
Lipkis' revelation came 18 years ago at summer camp, where he planted his first smog-resistant trees. "It was backbreaking work that required all of our creativity," he recalls. "For me, it was a life-altering experience." Lipkis went on to study ecology and search for ways to encourage more people to plant more trees. "I started a long process of trying and failing," he remembers, as he sought to enlist public and private support for his cause. "Being able to fail is a key to the volunteer process," he adds now. "In their jobs, people aren't allowed...