Farm Camps Offer a Down-to-Earth Respite from Technology

With the end of school around the corner, the options for summer camp have gotten endlessly niche: there’s rock-star camp, circus-arts camp, Hollywood-stunt camp. But in what may be a backlash to the glitz of it all, the hippest new kid on the block is the lowly farm camp, with tilling the earth now seen as a wholesome and character-building respite from video games and texting

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Putting Limits on Teen Drivers

Since Kindergarten, they had been known as “the crew.” Still a close-knit group in high school, the five Henderson, Nev., boys were all delighted when Sean Larimer turned 16 and in 2003 became the first to get his driver’s license. Sean’s mom, Susan Larimer, a hospital nurse who was in the midst of a divorce, was happy about it too

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Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I used to tell my daughter stories about a family of mer-cats–kitties with fish tails–who lived in the East River and how they were persecuted by a mean purple octopus. I spent considerable time and effort coming up with nonviolent ways for the mer-cats to defeat the octopus at the end of each story

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Fujimori’s Spouse, an American: Peru’s Next First Gentleman?

Mark Villanella, born in New Jersey, cannot run for President in his adopted home of Peru, but he just might be the hottest property in the final weeks of Peru’s hard-fought presidential campaign. Villanella, 35, is married to Peruvian Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori, who is ahead in the polls two weeks before the June 5 votes.

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