I’m not sure they’re worth the expense for the half-dozen days a year we’d use them. Did you have air in your apartment?”“No, but we always ...ad a breeze.”“I’ll open the windows. It should cool off.”Loren found a scrap of wood from the swing set and used it to block open the sliding door leading to the patio. He bounded up the stairs and opened windows in the bedroom. “Say bonne nuit to Loren,” Abrielle said to her daughter.“Bonne nuit, she said.“Bonne nuit Nicole,” he replied and hugged. However, when I walked into the office, I got a couple of stares, but not much for teasing or shaming. But then as I neared Brad’s office, I heard Tracy and Brad’s conversation. Tracy was standing by Brad’s door as I started to walk by his office. “Well, well, Jesse. I couldn’t believe my eyes last Friday.” I stared at him and sternly asked him, “How so?” “Well, I saw Sue walking with another girl to the salon. That girl next to Sue was very hot. So hot, that I almost walked up to her and asked. And we’ve already paid for your coaching.”“But Mu-u-um, it’s a Tri-State Qualifier. We might never get a chance to see Kevin run in one again.”“It’s okay, Terri,” I interceded. “There are thirty schools competing. If you were there, you’d see about one minute of action involving me getting humiliated.”“Would you like me to come for support while your mother takes Terri to gymnastics?” asked Dad.“No, it’s okay. You’d have to take the car and that would leave Mum and Terri either scrounging a. Seriously, Bates' World is a small, earthlike planet with no indigenous fauna. It's light on metals so the colonists will have to take supplements until the soil where there crops are grown can be enriched with appropriate minerals, but in a few years, with hard work, the colony will become self-sustaining." How did this Bates' World get its name?" another reporter asked."We have been considering a number of planets discovered by our explorers. This particular one had only a numerical.