Word: affectionate
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--NAME Incorporate your child's birth name into his or her American name, and use it with affection. Many parents choose to use their child's birth name as a middle name.
Leading the movement is Radio Disney, which focuses on tweens, the youngsters who, as Tim McCarthy, the network's president and general manager in New York City, puts it, are in that "overlooked period when you're not a little kid but you're not a teen." Just as boy...
To Mr. Chu, whose greatest object of affection since his wife left has been his giant pig Mama, Tong Tong is inspiration, a reason to lift his head out of the slop. To his porcine-eyed son Ming, whose bedroom is decorated with pinups, she's fantasy made flesh. To...
WALL WALKING Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty, was of a very Chinese disposition: he liked walls, the longer the better. His affection for fortification was not merely fanciful: Zhu (also known as Hong Wu) spent 30 years at war with various warlords in his campaign to...
Reading the report, one wonders how seriously its crafters take their own recommendations. Most Egyptians I know have a sophisticated understanding of how the Bush Administration's support for Israel works, and what it means. "Sharon is a 'man of peace,' Israel must defend herself, but the Palestinians can just...