Word: brushed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your children," she said. "But personally? I don't particularly care who cleans my toilets. I don't feel ennobled by that job." Of course, Folbre has done it enough to know it's hard, honest work you can be proud of doing well. Kids armed with a scrub brush will learn too. But for you, the ennobling work may be chores like baking with children or helping an ailing neighbor with yard work. Folbre had a special message for parents of daughters: Think twice before teaching them that housework is an essential part of their future. You want...
...first linked to the charges of corruption?the alleged embezzlement of $4.1 million from a state-run pension fund by his personal masseur and a claim that he made misleading declarations about a $2 million donation from the Sultan of Brunei that subsequently went missing?he haughtily tried to brush off the accusations...
...mews like a wounded animal as one tightens a rubber band around her head to raise the vein. Tears pour unnoticed from her mother's eyes as she watches the needle tap-tap at her daughter's temple. Each time the whimpering child lifts a wan hand to brush away the pain, her mother gently lowers it. Drop by drop, the nurses manage to collect 1 cc of blood in five minutes...
...true that osteoporosis strikes women with much greater frequency than men--in some studies as much as four to six times as often. But that's no reason to brush it off as "their" disease. It's a mere stroke of gender luck that men's bones tend to grow larger, stronger and denser. Also paying dividends are those sports that boys (and, increasingly, girls) play as children--running up and down basketball courts, soccer fields and baseball diamonds. As it happens, physical activity is one of the more important ways to increase bone density and protect bone health...
...Tina simply scared of the old broad when she kept her "promise" and turned on Maralyn amid the glow of the torchlights? Quite possibly. But in the end, the overarching story held: Only the young survive. Because Tina's brush-off - not much softened by the little frownie face she put on her vote - was just subplot window dressing...