Word: summering
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Nature sometimes has suicidal impulses. This year in the American West, it has set itself on fire--fire's version of The Perfect Storm, a convergence of dry summer lightning, blast-furnace air and millions of acres of tinder. The worst is yet to come...
...comes the war: logging managers say this year's fires are in some ways the result of insufficient logging, which led to the buildup of dense "fuel loads" that, given this summer's conditions (drought and dry heat) produce fires so hot they create their own fierce weather systems: fire winds and exploding trees...
...pencils down. These questions, which percolated through e-mail chains over the summer, are not meant to prepare you for the hot seat on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Rather, they're drawn from an oral exam given to seventh- and eighth-graders in Saline County, Kans., back in 1895. Students who mastered the five-hour exercise gained admission to high school. And if enough of the kids performed well overall in their studies, their teachers could win a pay raise of 25[cents] a week...
Before applying to colleges, homeschoolers often enroll in a course at a local college or in a summer program at a competitive university to show that they can handle both the academic rigor and the social distractions of college life. Before their three college-bound, homeschooled children began making applications, the Heywood family of Durham, N.C., sent each child to a summer program at a highly ranked school: Oxford University in England or Williams or Amherst college in Massachusetts. "We chose to educate our kids at home because we weren't happy with what the local schools had to offer...
Vault.com takes credit for improving work life at the firms it covers. When employees at the Internet-business-strategies firm Agency.com complained about management last summer, its co-founder responded personally. He assured the online posters that Agency.com takes "the messages posted on these boards very seriously" and that it was committed to employee satisfaction. After the dustup, Agency.com created a new position of "chief people officer." (It says the step was unrelated to the Vault postings...