Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season of high anxiety and road trips. Across the U.S., the families of more than a million high school seniors--at least those who did not do so this July and August--are spending a good portion of this autumn visiting college campuses. As the days dwindle down to a precious few before applications are due, the students are struggling to find--and get into--a college or university that will bestow upon them a pedigree ensuring success in life. Poised to court them are college-admissions staffs bristling with view books, videos and other lures of modern marketing, eager...
...felt her brain go on strike. "I just couldn't get going in the morning," she says. "I'd get depressed and gain 10 lbs. every winter and lose them again in the spring." Then she read about seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in autumn and winter, and she saw the light--literally. Every morning now she turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it's still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work. "Even my kids notice...
...nature. But that makes writing haikus--three-line Japanese poems with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern--easy. Writing poetry when you have to spend your days listening to Bill Clinton or Limp Bizkit--that's hard. We asked some people thus employed to write a haiku about autumn...
...Autumn Bounty...
...Each autumn, we send our sons and daughters back to school, urging them to study hard, do well. But we worry: Are we pushing them too much? Or not enough? Have we nurtured their talents? Or failed to recognize them? Are we doing all we can to help our kids succeed? In this special report, TIME explores what it takes to succeed in school. We look at some reigning theories about intelligence and gender differences and offer some basic lessons on how to help children make the most of their minds...