Word: touchings
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...female gorilla, reclines lazily in the tall grass, only centimeters away. Crouch down a bit and you can gaze directly into her astonishingly soulful eyes. Later, a dozen curious ring-tailed lemurs surround you; they're so close that some even reach out their small, dexterous hands to touch the sleeve of your T shirt. This is not some remote African campsite but the town of Fuengirola, on Spain's densely developed, tourist-packed Costa del Sol. Once you've achieved the perfect sunburn and eaten your body weight in ice cream, head for Fuengirola Zoo, where amazing encounters like...
...head to head with J. Lo. They just wanted to make a theoretical point. "We very strongly insist on architecture's potential to reach all the senses," he says, "not just the visual. At a time of digital media and cyberspace, architecture has this old-fashioned potential. You can touch it, you can feel it, you can see it, you can smell...
...extracurricular activities. "The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions," says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Boston-area mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get low-income underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that...
...this town,” he asserts. “We should enter into this conversation with a bill in hand, already equated, and respectfully say to them what the city says to residents: If you can’t pay it, the city solicitor will be in touch with...
...thing I’m best at is making a stink in public,” he says with a touch of glee...