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...through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think we should sign a peace treaty," offered sixth-grader Arlene Lopez. Many schools held bake sales to raise money for disaster-relief funds--helpful to the destitute but also therapeutic for the donors. Esther Giller, director of Maryland's Sidran Traumatic Stress Foundation, advises adults to "encourage children to become involved to overcome their feelings of helplessness...
Then along came Larry King. King, in USA Today, reinvented the concept of the column, making it the easiest job in the world. Using the classic three-dot format and replacing information with random opinions, he filled columns with sentences like these: "Does anybody know how to bake strawberry longcake?...I hate digital clocks...If George Shearing is playing piano, I'm listening to the piano...Whoever invented the paper clip is a genius...Someday they'll send pizza pies to your house like faxes, and boy will that make money." By looking inside instead of outside, King effectively...
...implies, the Aga is more than just a stove. For one thing, it is never turned off. Fueled by wood or coal in the past, but now powered by oil, gas or electricity, the 500-kg Aga remains permanently hot, ready to roast a turkey, boil a kettle or bake a cake, day or night. Its brightly colored enamel surface also emanates a constant gentle warmth which, like any hearth, tends to draw people to it. Some owners feel such affection for their Aga that they give it a name...
...It’s only been a couple of years that a family member didn’t either bake or make the crust or slice the apples of every single pie we sell––and we sell thousands each day,” her daughter-in-law says...
...ruled by--her own obsessive systems. Jessy's calculations based on the weather and the phases of the moon, for example, long dictated precisely how much juice she poured into her glass at dinner. And the word typo inspired her to invent a vocabulary for other errors: speako, cooko, bake-o, painto...