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...sand is white, the weather right, the pleasures plentiful-and a Pan Am tourist book even advises women visi tors to leave their girdles at home. Now industry is coming to the Virgins, and the results so far are unsettling to many of the islands' 36,000 year-round residents...
Cardullo's, at 6 Brattle Street in the heart of the Square, is the Thermidorian reaction to Central Kitchen's republic of virtue. It is a year-round gastronomical world's fair...
Appetite for Everything. All cities with old slum dwellings have a year-round lead poisoning problem. Interior paints used to contain a great deal of the metal; most exterior paints still contain some, but far less than formerly. Crawlers and toddlers in the chew-everything age nibble porch rails and windowsills, chew flakes of old paint or chips of painted plaster and take the lead into their systems, where it is deposited, much like calcium, in the bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that...
...carpenter, switched to teaching math and industrial arts. Twice acting president, he guided five Antioch presidents in more than doubling enrollment (to 1,670) and faculty, and in raising endowment 25-fold. Antioch now has some 800 students off working in 35 states at any one time. A year-round calendar allows them to earn B.A.s in the standard four years; the jobs help them learn more than students at sheltered schools. Alexander's parting hope: that "we continue to be a force for constructive change in American higher education." The University of Wyoming is losing lean, granitic Samuel...
...children's market spreads far beyond candy or toys (already a $30-per-child year-round business). Furniture stores and some vacation resorts ask TV stations for advertising time sandwiched between children's programs; household cleaners, such as Texize Chemical Inc.'s Texize, advertise in what is called "children's prime time." One of the greatest marketing successes in the annals of Colgate-Palmolive...