Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hymas, who took sixth place at the H-Y-P meet, ran a solid race as well, and has proven to be a valuable weapon for the Crimson this season...
...developed BOW, some 50,000 women have gone through the program. Kim Fredritz of Carey, Ohio, has attended several BOW workshops. A country girl and a farmer's wife, she was thrilled to experience "a new appreciation for everything in the outdoors." Having excelled in shotgun classes, she then took a BOW turkey-hunting workshop so she could shoot as well as cook her family's Thanksgiving meal...
...patiently untangled them and, with sweat pouring down his face and into his glasses, carried them down a steep path to a work station below. There he and his wife Helen or one of their three teammates on an Earthwatch expedition recorded the birds' size, type and condition, took blood samples and made sure they were banded before setting them free. At dusk Lee closed the nets and took his turn cooking dinner or cleaning up. Then he collapsed, exhausted, in a tent. "I wouldn't trade it for anything," he declares. "Hard work, but it was marvelous...
Working and raising their three daughters left Duane and Bettie Peterson little time or money for travel--until four years ago, when Duane took early retirement from his product-development job for Gillette and Bettie quit working as a nurse. "We started thinking about how we've been given a lot out of life and wanted to give something back," he says. Signing on with Global Volunteers, the couple from Hudson, Wis., have jetted off to places they had only dreamed of seeing: Costa Rica and the South Pacific. Their favorite jaunt was to China, where they spent three weeks...
...world's diversity. On many afternoons and evenings, Carnright visited villagers in their homes or met with groups curious about the U.S. and how it differed from Ghana. After her work stint, she spent a week in Accra, where a friend she had made in the village took her to museums, the national park and the beach and told her the history of his country. Reflecting on a summer vacation well spent, Carnright says, "You feel like you have accomplished something. You open things up for people you work with and yourself...