Word: alexandria
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Many antiques dealers, who would seem most threatened by eBay, have seen their livelihoods transformed. David James, for example, opened his shop in Alexandria, Va., eight years ago. He deals mostly in what the trade calls smalls: candlesticks, glassware and other such collectibles. He's still got the store, but today his business--and his life--revolve around a warehouse a few miles away, where he stores the treasures he has gleaned from scouting estate sales and flea markets. From a cramped, windowless cubicle, he monitors the hundreds of auctions he has posted--moving anywhere from...
...thousands of patients. What most people don't realize is that the scientists who conduct these studies need test subjects almost as badly as the subjects need treatment, and that lately the scientists have been running short of willing participants. At a conference on clinical trials held recently in Alexandria, Va., researchers trying to devise strategies for signing up more patients noted that one of the reasons there has been so much progress in treating pediatric cancers over the past 20 years is that 60% of all children with cancer are enrolled in some kind of trial. With adults, enrollment...
...grandparents but their grandchildren as well. Some, like Marriott's Bedford Court in Silver Spring, Md., schedule holiday celebrations to which grandchildren are invited. Others, realizing how much good the old and the young gain from rubbing elbows, have introduced intergenerational programs for all their residents. Goodwin House in Alexandria, Va., arranges activities that draw unrelated youngsters as well as grandchildren. "The young people stimulate mental health and a cheerful outlook in the elders, and [the young] gain from the mentoring by the seniors," says spokesman Andrew Morgan. To prepare youngsters for the shock of seeing ill or disabled elders...
...year. Aircraft charter varies in cost from $40 to $400 a seat per hour. Charter operators and pilots must meet more stringent FAA safety standards than fractionals--and usually an on-demand charter can be arranged in much less time. JAMES K. COYNE, PRESIDENT National Air Transportation Association Alexandria...
...median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh, these kids could do better.'" Mitchell Stevens, who is writing Kingdom of Children: Pedagogy and Politics in the Home Schooling Movement for the Princeton University Press, concludes, "At worst, home schoolers are doing as well as the average public school...