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...participating in various organized sports at 40 million. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the number of kids playing basketball now tops 12 million. Not to mention the nearly 7 million playing soccer. Or the 5 million playing baseball. Hockey, originally played on frozen ponds, is now a year-round sport involving more than half a million kids from Maine down through the Sunbelt. The Turcotte Stickhandling Hockey School, based in Ormond Beach, Fla., of all places, expects 6,400 kids to take part in its clinics this summer, up from...
...painting, history, music. The week-long program costs $1,950 per person, which includes some meals as well as the courses and accommodations. In high season, lodging alone at the tony Hyatt starts at $430 per night. On the East Coast, themed weekends, from birding to ballroom dancing, occur year-round at the 129-year-old historic Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y., where A.A.R.P. members receive 15% off standard room rates regardless of season. Most of the weekend programs are free to hotel guests, as are acres of gardens and trails to explore, plus the full array...
...distressing resemblance to the rest of the year--and the rest of your life. Students who once settled for stints as lifeguards, camp counselors or Gap greeters are scrambling for career-oriented summer jobs and high-profile internships, with an eye toward boosting credentials for college admissions officers or prospective employers. These are students with enough memory of corporate downsizing to know that the job market can be ruthless, and they're dazzled enough by tales of 24-year-old Internet millionaires to realize that the fast track runs year-round. "The job market is as strong as we have...
...course, Waters lives in a region where good produce is abundant year-round. Elsewhere, eating by the Slow Food credo is not quite so easy. Sacrifice may be required--no arugula in January, for example, in climates where it does not grow then. Being gastronomically aware can also cost more; quality ingredients from small producers are usually expensive. But as David Auerbach, a professor at North Carolina State University at Raleigh, points out, "If we spent less on toys that don't give us real pleasure and more on good food, we'd feel better, and eventually prices would drop...
...whole reason why the Hostage Rescue Team was founded is that dealing with situations like this really requires special training," she says. "Every member is trained to deal with explosives, every member has medical training, and the team trains year-round. The close-quarter combat skills you need to handle something like Littleton have to be constantly kept sharp." Local SWAT teams like Littleton's, by contrast, tend to train once a month. Equipment and specialized training varies wildly from team to team, and indeed the Littleton team did not have explosives training...