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1. Learn to say hello in three different languages. 2. Turn off the computer or TV and play outside! 3. Make your own trail mix with nuts, seeds, and dried [...]

HOW TO READ AN AYN RAND NOVEL 1. Buy Atlas Shrugged. 2. Pore over every word. 3. Accept it all as gospel. 4. Realize the individual's rights are of paramount [...]

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Seeing The Number 23, a film about a man (Jim Carrey) whose growing obsession with a book that seems to mirror his life causes him to find numerical coincidences involving--not [...]

What do America's middle and high school students do when they leave school? The Public Agenda organization found that activities ranging from sports, to art and music, to church play [...]

Joe Saltel, of Pharr, Texas, was 8 years old when he called his first square dance. Thirty years later, he still calls, full time, and instructs as well. 'I was [...]

Baseball can be healing. That's the premise of HBO's Nine Innings From Ground Zero, in which New Yorkers, ballplayers and politicians reflect on the value of America's pastime in the [...]

Slipping out of the social scene (even for a day) has pleasurable effects. See why going solo rocks: YOU CALL As the master of your domain, you can spend the [...]

When Cole Porter met Noel Coward on Capri, the boys they in tow went mad at the sight of one another, and the first gay vacation was born. Where their [...]

J.A. Fredricks, C.J. Alfeld-Liro, L.Z. Hruda, J.S. Eccles, H. Patrick & A.M. Ryan, Journal of Adolescent Research, v. 17, n.1, 2002, pp.68-97. Researchers have identified several consequences of extracurricular participation; [...]

Research by Associate Professor Kevin Norton, of the University of South Australia, suggests that 10% of South Australian children spend more time watching television than attending school. Recently published data [...]

The ripple effect of Sept. 11 on the performing arts industry was obvious just days after the terrorist attacks as New York's famed theater district fell virtually silent. But that [...]

The article offers information on the 2014 Acadia Quest called Uniquely Acadia to be held at Acadia National Park in Maine. It notes that teams to take part in the quest are expected to gather experiences on the carriage roads, unique destinations, water bodies and trails of Acadia. It points out that a 2015 Acadia National Park Annual Entrance Pass will be awarded to teams that will complete the Quest.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by Lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy Welcome to the Show Come with me […]

5 Benefits of Combining Kids and Camcorders Camcorders aren't just for adults; they're for kids as well. Experts say there are many benefits that kids can receive from the process [...]

The creation of Australian football stadiums in the latter stages of the nineteenth century proved to be a significant starting point in the professionalisation of the sport. The football arena [...]

Among this year's summer trends is the full-service jazz festival. You can get a foot massage while you listen to Nicholas Payton. There is a caricaturist on hand, a wide [...]

Have you made your plans for the millennium? I don't mean the whole of it. Just the moment of transition. Apparently you need to hurry up. The champagne is already [...]

The New Forest is as unlike a forest in the modern sense as it could be. It is a tamed countryside. You are never far from a tree, but you [...]

It's been a long, hard season. At this stage it's not surprising that tiredness sets in, wear and tear affects body and spirit. It's easy to understand why freshness, sharpness [...]

HOLLYWOOD There was something for everyone at Hollywood's Oscar night parties March 23 -- even the Beverly Hills fire brigade. True to form, the yellow-helmeted types were called to 439 [...]

Before the match Glenn Hoddle said that politics doesn't unite a country. Only football, our number one sport, Unites a country. Before the match he was just Hoddle, the new [...]

Where is the future of gay and lesbian music headed? Who knows. The future does not exist. If the future existed, it would not, by definition, be the future. And [...]

What a long wait it's been. All summer I've had my magnifying glass out, searching for snippets, trawling for titbits, peering for paragraphs, even in the smallest of print, in [...]

Summer in Portugal, and every day coachloads of lobster-tinted British tourists are deposited in our village to see the sights. After they've done the castle, palace, and guesthouse where Byron [...]

'The Star-Spangled Banner' has been reduced from anthem to opening act ABOUT A MONTH AGO I ATTENDED A TRULY SPECTACULAR sound-and-light show on the campus of my alma mater, Brown [...]

TWO OLD PEOPLE, once playmates of the little Czarevitch, Alexci, recalled that since he was a hemophiliac, he could not run or play. Minor accidents like falls had serious consequences. [...]

'Lago! Lago! Wolf! Wolf!' Haitian children who speak Creole (a mixture of Old French and African) shout this when they play the hide-and-chase game of Lago, Lago (LAH-go LAH-go). They [...]

AN IDEA SO GOOD THAT IT DESERVES CRITICISM: On the Trans-Canada Trail, you will encounter the Labatt blue jay, Tim Hortons' sunset and perhaps the Hair Club for Men bald [...]

Each and every day we are faced with opportunities to make choices. Some of our choices affect only ourselves, but most choices we make have a ripple effect that can […]

Just a couple of decades ago, Donna Sasges's favorite pastime would have been the object of raised eyebrows and disapproving glances. Even today, the 30-year-old Edmonton schoolteacher says, 'some people [...]

My husband, Lawrence, and I have gone Wilderness camping by canoe since the beginning of our marriage; when our children were born, it seemed natural to include them in these [...]

There's a touching short story by John Updike entitled 'Still of Some Use,' in which a middle-aged man named Foster returns to his old house to help his ex-wife clean [...]