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Summer Schooling
From the Washington Post
June, 2005
Twelve tips and tricks for surviving the steamy season. Like choosing a beach read: "You think you know the answer to this one. Paperback, with the author's name in typeface larger and more prominent than the title, and featuring any of the following: hard-boiled cops, high-heeled schemers, sinister conspiracies, sweeping sagas, monstrous evil, feisty heroines or things that go bump in the night. Right?
As it turns out, not everyone wants to check their brains at the time-share door.
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From the Washington Post
September 3, 2004
Mathews County, where every road is a side road, the stars spangle the skies at night, and it's so quiet you can hear the fiddler crabs scuttling about at low tide, is a place residents regularly refer to, without a trace of irony, as "paradise." It's also home to some of the best coastal paddling in the mid-Atlantic.
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It
Takes a Solar Village
From the Washington Post
September 27, 2002
On the National Mall, 14 college
and university teams square off for the final two weeks
of a competition to
design and build the most efficient, livable and aesthetically
inviting home possible, run entirely by the sun.
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Seven
on 11
From the Washington Post
March 8, 2002
Getting away from it all without having to get very far away, in the slow lane on the Old Valley Pike in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, with hot chips, old books, and pies warm from the oven.
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Chad
About Town
From the Washington Post
Friday, March 21, 2003
At the center of an intricately interconnected and ever-changing urban tribe of bright young things in the big city, Chad Poist sets forth armed with Frisbees, Grape Nuts, and a big back seat.
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My Mother, the Father
Originally appeared
in Skirt Magazine
May 2001
As both my parents are priests, you might
think I'd be in jail by now, or a tobacco lawyer.
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Date updated: 12.07.04
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