Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amount spent on staff travel...
...teens. America's leading zeitgeist indicators are storming the Palace by the tens of thousands, in all their tribal, hormone-addled glory. They behave like adolescents everywhere, which is to say they dress badly, act obnoxious and travel in packs. Clans like Anarchy and the DiVas drape their slouching cartoon avs in baggy "sk8ter" duds and goof on one another with "scripts"--programs that let you string a strand of hearts around the neck of someone you admire or grandly urinate on someone you don't. In the Palace you never know what will happen. "The other night...
Parents should do these things to make their child a better student: turn off the television. Fill every room (yes, even the bathroom) with books, magazines and newspapers. Play, read, cook, read, travel, read and then read some more with your kids. If reading becomes the primary form of entertainment in the home, youngsters will turn to books. My best moments were when the kids were naughty and told they could not read. Ahh, the pleasure of catching them "sneak reading." Killing our television was the best thing we ever did. BRIDGET BOYLE Corona, Calif...
...intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking as an example in miniature of historical white exploitation of black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel, not travel writing salted with guilt. The author's strong female characterizations carry a story that moves through its first half like a river in flood...
...proceed, President Clinton's scheduled departure Friday for a 10-day tour of Asia may set the time frame: "Politically, the President needs to be in Washington when America goes into battle," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "If nothing's happened by Wednesday night and the President's travel plans don't change, chances are that Iraq will have to wait a couple of weeks...