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...lessons of Bowling Park, where the student body is overwhelmingly black and low income, are not just for schools that serve the poor. In fact, Zigler's concept of expanding school into a full-day, year-round enterprise is equally crucial to middle-class parents at Sycamore Hills Elementary School in Independence, Missouri, where students are mostly white...
...knew coming in that Washington was gong to give us a challenge," senior Alex Blake said. "Most of the west coast teams are on the water year-round, and we had only been on the water for two weeks before our first race...
...Lots of sports require year-round work," Gilmore says Sports like basketball, swimming, tennis and many others require a lot of time in the off-season...
...Swimming became a real focus there," Koerckel says. "The training was very intense, and the competition was as well. We were the national high school champions for three years while I was there. Swimming was a year-round activity...
...influx of free-spending visitors has triggered a migration from the mainland of people seeking tourism-related jobs. In 1970 the year-round population was about 2,000 people; now it is close to 15,000 and growing 8% a year. The new arrivals are already straining the Galapagos' water supply and waste-disposal systems, and they are putting pressure on the social fabric as well. "The newcomers just come here to make money," complains Esperanza Ramos, who arrived with her husband and four children in 1968. Like other residents, she blames the new wave of immigrants, many of whom...