Word: worlds
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...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
...were slow all first half and weren't winning balls that were ours," Wheaton said. "We said that we have great pride in ourselves a program, and when we step on the field we show the world how hard we have worked and how much it matters to us. We didn't feel like we'd done that, and it was our goal to do just that in the second half--I think...
...else's home and life," says Lori Horne, who was an avid swapper before she bought the Intervac network 10 years ago. But intimacy can cut both ways. While your guests have their feet up on your ottoman, gazing at the photographs of your children, sipping coffee from your "World's Greatest Dad" mug, you may be frantically calling home to ask why their washing machine keeps spinning your clothes but never wets them. (They have thoughtfully left the instructions out, but they're in Dutch.) The thought of strangers in your home doing Lord knows what to your fine...
...Edith Bridges of Weymouth, Mass., were wary of the hard-sell tactics used to market time-shares. But 11 years ago, Bridges, 59, an electrician, and his wife, 57, a tutor, shelled out $8,000 for one week each year in a fully equipped two-bedroom "villa" near Disney World. The Bridgeses soon learned that they had acquired a valuable currency in today's booming vacation market. Before long they were trading their place for a week's skiing at Lake Tahoe or a visit to New Orleans. "I guess I always thought there was a scheme," says Edith Bridges...
Frankel's traveling companions eventually began to fall away, disillusioned with life on the lam, leaving Allison and him at the sparsely furnished Via Asmara apartments. "Marty used to ask me where we should go," Allison says. "He began to realize how small the world really is when everyone is looking...