Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

Swollen with greatness, slightly afraid lest the noble blood of Nottingham change its mind and leave him at any street corner, Babbitt paraded with Sir Gerald Doak to the movie palace and in silent bliss sat beside him, trying not to be too enthusiastic, lest the knight despise his adoration of six-shooters and broncos.

Thirty-plus years earlier, it was on the beach in front of this building, with its lookout tower and rescue boat at the ready, that the town's earliest fanny dippers, bathers, and swimmers of varied abilities, first made a practice of entering the ocean in front of the lifeguard […]

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