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Summer Schooling
Any parent knows that the quickest route to madness is an interstate, a traffic jam, and offspring in the back seat squaring off over a territorial divide more fiercely guarded than the Korean DMZ. But the beach beckons, the mountains call, Cinderella is waving from the Magic Kingdom—in short, a family road trip is in the offing, and what's a parent to do?

The Prettiest Office in the World
A burly man with a ready laugh and an amiable manner, he rides the water with an ease born of long familiarity, one boat-shoed foot kicked up on the starboard gunwale. In 1960, when he was 12, Frederickson moved with his family to Hopewell, where he lives still, and he hasn't been able to keep away from the water since.

Bike-O-Polo
Forget ponies and princes. For this game of polo all you need is a mallet, nerves of steel, and a two-wheeled steed. And when you break a spoke, you don't have to shoot your bike.

It Takes a Solar Village
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.

Seven on 11
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.

Chad About Town
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.

My Mother, the Father
As both my parents are priests, you might think I'd be in jail by now, or a tobacco lawyer.

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