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Getting kids outdoors in the technological age

By Tom Mooney
The Providence Journal

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — George Jacques taught physical education last year in Rhode Island's Foster-Glocester Regional School District where he noticed a peculiar phenomenon taking shape: fewer children were returning to school in September with suntans. "I'd ask them what they did all summer and they'd say: 'We were at a neighbor's house playing the greatest and latest video game.' " At Camp Fuller in South Kingstown, the staff is building sleeping platforms this summer on their get- ...

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