Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: MADONNA "AND CHILD" CICCONE AGE: 40 OCCUPATION: Polytheistic singer BEST PUNCH: Reportedly sent Stallone unkind word, via friend Ingrid Casares, of her displeasure over the potential invasion of her and Lourdes' privacy...
...newsstands? Don't flatter yourself. On the other hand, in an age when anyone with a modem can publish a Web page accessible to all of planet Earth, who needs newsstands? You may not be a celebrity, and public interest in your sins may be meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with...
...children an edge. Why else would we sign up our newborns for a class called Sing 'n Dance? It hardly mattered that my eight-week-old daughter Rachel had not yet mastered holding her head upright and was nowhere close to rolling over. She was considered the perfect age for the weekly program that promised a meaningful learning experience through rhythmic games, finger play and songs...
...Books, books and more books. Reading to a child offers wonderful bonding opportunities, and it's never too early to start. But don't race through a story or choose complicated texts. Find age-appropriate ways to engage babies in the material. If reading is merely a passive activity for toddlers, they won't learn how to be critical thinkers or to take the initiative...
...children in real peril. Many kids are living in unstable homes amid conditions that truly threaten brain development. What is more, the growing strains on the child-care system, especially since welfare reform, give child-development experts particular cause for worry. Without meaningful intervention before they reach school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director...