Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their lives. There is my great-uncle who, in mid-life, ran off with the circus. His sainted wife's stone sits forlorn, wedged into the grass. We also celebrate the ordinariness of our ancestors--the soldiers, teachers, farmers and parents who spent purposeful lives in this little town. Our visit to the cemetery is where we work out our connection to these people, and to one another...
Psychologists stress the importance of ritual in binding families together, and Memorial Day presents a great opportunity. This year, if you're driving to the beach, turn off the car radio and explain to your kids why everyone has the day off. On the way out of town, swing by the war memorial. Your kids may see it every day, but now you can explain what it is there for. Lucky to live in a time of relative peace, they need to be taught that we honor the sacrifice of others. Find out if there's a parade nearby...
...years ago, my husband and I were in the drugstore of a little town in Arizona and met a man in his 60s, shopping. He wore a cowboy hat and sported two revolvers--one for each leg. When we saw that he had a third gun slipped into the back of his jeans waistband, we thought it best to leave. You would see nothing like this here in Italy or in any other European country. Did this man really need three guns to go to the drugstore? Smokers are outcasts now in the U.S.; I would like...
...public schools--a place like prestigious Whitney Young High, with its student body of 2,200. Instead she ended up at a tiny school with only 140 students and a funny name: Best Practices High. And now, to her surprise, she couldn't be happier. Few people in town know her school's name--but everyone at school knows hers. Once a shy student with low test scores, Perry, 16, has won admission to the National Honor Society. Her high school, she says, is "small, but it's like a big extended family...
...only can students socialize in the laboratory, but the department is also subsidizing the occasional night on the town for its graduate students...