Word: summers
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...mile sojourn. Perhaps it's simply a change of pace from my frequent-flyer life-style. For Nancy, who doesn't travel much, I suspect it's a refreshing combination of getting out of the house/classroom or maybe the sustained euphoria from school's being out for the summer...
...CRACKLE, YUCK! Here's something to chew on this summer: every time your bug zapper vaporizes a fly, it sends off a cone of bacteria-and-virus-laden mist that can be up to 6 ft. wide. Most of the microbes are probably harmless--unless the insect has been feeding on manure. Best advice: mount your zapper far from your food...
Viewers, often refugees returning to what is left of their homes with little money, also learn how to dry out dwellings after the roof has been blown off. And stay tuned for next week's spring-summer show: how to replant after de-mining has churned up your garden. Broadcast from Sarajevo with help from the nonprofit Internews, the show has attracted sponsors from the building industry, one of the few growth sectors in the region. Next market, Belgrade...
...more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. When they sing the song of summer in Philadelphia, they aren't kidding. Across much of the U.S. these days, summer school is in great demand for kids who flunk standardized tests and must either pull up their scores or repeat a grade. But summer school costs money, and with rare exceptions over the past 10 years, Philly's public schools haven...
...first saw Mother Teresa in the summer of 1951, when I started school at Loreto House in Calcutta. The school was run by the Sisters of Loreto according to directives sent from its principal convent in Ireland. During the British raj, Loreto House had admitted very few Indians. By the time I became a student there, the majority of students were Hindu Bengalis, the daughters of Calcutta's elite families, but the majority of teachers continued to be Irish-born nuns. Mother Teresa was no longer affiliated with the Sisters of Loreto, but she came around to our campus every...