This story unfolded in February 2006, with a furor like that of one of those summer thunderstorms that periodically sweep across the nation's capital, seeming to arise out of nowhere, building rapidly to a loud and frightening climax, and then moving out again, leaving Washingtonians to wonder what had hit them.

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And sometimes on warm breezy summer afternoons like this one, he pauses to see if he can see what he has grown.

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Now operated by a charitable trust, the R Tucker Thompson runs summer day sails like this one to fund its work with local children.

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The Interior Department, which is already one of the largest federal employers of young people, will create more opportunities, like summer jobs, for young people from military families.

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They increased their participation in a program like summer feeding by 17 percent, more than any other state except for one, except for West Virginia.

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What people like Robert Moses, founder of the Algebra Project, and Grace Boggs, one of the founders of Detroit Summer, recognize, is that we've got to engage our children in the effort to rebuild and remold our cities.

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It feels like one of those uninhabited towns in a cowboy movie, an abandoned movie set with tumbleweeds flying in the hot summer wind.

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