Word: models
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...because the pilot, an expert, is standing coolly on the ground, dual-levered radio transmitter in hand, 500 ft. below the aerobatics. Meet George Messetler, 80, the diminutive, elegant "grandfather" of the Rockland County Radio Control Flyers. Each week Messetler and other like-minded aviators in his 130-member model-plane flying club meet on a field and fly mini-airplanes they have constructed. They console one another when they crash. They grill burgers, give one another unsolicited aviation advice, show off for their wives and, if the wind is right...
...Model-plane flyers--and there are lots of them--are a passionate breed. The brainy but little-known hobby has been on the rise in the past five years. Last year membership in the 64-year-old Academy of Model Aeronautics, the hobby's sanctioning body, grew by 6%, the largest increase ever. Some 2,500 clubs across the country meet regularly at lakes, small fields and grand minirunways. Though the flyers start as young as age 6, the hobby is especially popular with retired men. More than half of the AMA's 165,000 members are male...
...Last year Spencer Bibbs and neighboring A. A. Dixon Elementary became national guinea pigs as the first schools to lose kids to state-sponsored vouchers, thanks to Governor Jeb Bush's "A+ Schools" program, the model for his brother's national voucher plan. (As governor of Texas, George W. Bush tried but failed to get the legislature to pass a similar program.) Students at both Pensacola schools were offered as much as $4,000 in state aid to pay for private-school tuition. Under Bush's national proposal, failing schools that do not improve for three years would lose their...
...Asked early in the election which single program would distinguish him from any other candidate, Gore cited his $50 billion "universal preschool" proposal, which would extend the Georgia model to the nation. It's the single costliest - and boldest - piece of his education agenda. Gore would also pump an extra $10 billion over 10 years into Head Start, the existing federal preschool program for poor children, which would continue to provide them with both educational enrichment and social services like meals and health care...
...Titus," family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an AIDS scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt-chasing. Like "All in the Family," its model, "Titus" daringly snatches comedy from the jaws of family drama. "The joy we get," Titus says, "is to scare the hell out of viewers and get us all laughing...