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...outlets, A Gift for Teaching in Orlando, Fla., and Kids 'N Need in Los Angeles, opened last month. The Kids 'N Need "resource center," located in a World Vision warehouse, is colorfully stocked with shelves of notebooks, vats of pencils, writing paper, dictionaries. It mimics a retail center, minus price tags. "Teachers love the concept," explains SHOPA president Steven Jacober. "A visit seems more like a shopping trip than a charity handout...
...incorporate learning into everyday life and make it lively. "This means that instead of telling a five-year-old about apples or reading about them in a book, you go pick apples, you peel apples and make apple sauce and apple pies," says Wendy Derrow, a family therapist in Orlando, Fla. "It's that pure, healthy, aren't-we-lucky-to-be-together environment that grows great learners...
...girls but bullying and teasing of boys. A rash of school shootings by boys has brought calls to cut back on violent video games and provide more in-school counseling. And parents are objecting to certain excesses: "Is it really fair," wrote Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, "that one of [my son's] feminist teachers refuses even to use male pronouns, referring to all students as 'shes' and all work as 'hers...
There was a perfect game, there was disappointment for the Cubs and Red Sox and a guy (Orlando Hernandez) got a start because his teammate (David Cone) was bitten...
Hiaasen's ire stems mostly from the creation of Disney World, virtually right in his own backyard. He hates what the theme park has done to his home town of Orlando, attracting people to a purely synthetic, artificially reassuring fairyland while treating the neighboring real world of South Florida as an offensive trash heap...