Word: echoingly
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...pony? Rerouting my overscheduled family toward an afternoon of free time is a task that would make hardened air-traffic controllers weep. It's small comfort to know that we echo the rest of America: a recent University of Michigan study determined that kids' free time had decreased 16% in a single generation. After asking 1,900 kids, ages 3 to 13, to keep a 24-hour diary (the little ones got help from parents), researcher Sandra Hofferth found that free time decreased dramatically from 1981 to 1997, from 63 hours a week to a mere...
...that together with a resurgence in political protest - most recently manifested in large scale at last year's WTO meeting in Seattle - and the kind of get-the-word-out connectivity made possible by the Internet, and you have potential for at least an echo of the goings-on that accompanied the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago...
...Echo Park, now playing at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, is an early attempt to combine the outsider rhythms of hip-hop with the conventions of musical theater. Echo Park's story line is slim and simple: Scott Jenkins (Derrik "Nine" Keyes), a young man growing up in the early days of rap, longs to be a deejay but has to persuade his mother Bertha (DK Dyson) to let him follow his dreams. Along the way, the show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs...
...culture, of course, isn't just about rap; break dancing is also an important part. And the dancing in Echo Park is spectacular. B-boys in the show spin like records on turntables and twist themselves like laces on Adidas sneakers. Without words, without samples, they capture the raw energy...
Both centers supervise the peer counseling and peer education groups, like Room 13, Peer Contraceptive Counselors and ECHO...