Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Daisuke Matsuzaka made his name in 1998, performing on the sacred grounds of Koshien, the Yankee Stadium of Japan, in the National High School Baseball Championship. The series is a national obsession, played in front of sell-out crowds and attracting more TV viewers every summer than any other sporting event. Families uproot themselves so their sons might play for a school with a chance of getting to Koshien; those who make it often scoop up dirt from the field as a souvenir...
Well, it's that time of year again: Time to pack away swimsuits, hang up sun hats and haul out the 940-page fall fashion issue of Vogue. Labor Day has come and gone, which means that summer is over, fall is imminent, and - let's try keeping that cheering to a reasonable decibel level, Mom and Dad - school is back in session...
...swelled up like little balloons in a violent allergic reaction to some still unnamed flower), I viewed the first day of school as something of a gift. Here I was, heading back to the trenches, with a new haircut (generally middling to bad), a faint tan (left over from summer camp) and a great pair of corduroys (it is just me, or was fall much less humid back in the ?70s?). I would head off to the bus stop with my neighbors, or start the one-mile trek to my high school with an unmistakable spring in my step...
...Libyans were just over and the place is a mess b) They didn't even bring a gift last time c) This whole summer it's been visit, visit, visit d) He claims the inspectors are spies...
...find out, we hired indoor-air detectives Terry Brennan and Richard Shaughnessy to come in this summer and give us a thorough checkup. Shaughnessy is head of indoor-air research at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Brennan is president of Camroden Associates of Westmoreland, N.Y., and is generally regarded as one of the top "building scientists" in the country. Things have never been busier for them and the thousands of other indoor-air experts across the country, Brennan says, because people are catching on to the effects of indoor contaminants. Last week, a University of Maryland professor announced that...