Word: caring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Congress will hear of long-term health care. Already the elderly absorb $258 billion in federal spending, two-thirds of the Health and Human Services budget. Yet at present there are only 25,000 Americans over the age of 100. By the end of the century, there will...
...Press Club's Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as the best general magazine story on foreign affairs. "Air Travel -- How Safe Is It?" (Jan. 12, 1987) picked up an Award of Excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association. "Who's Bringing Up Baby?" (June 22, 1987) examined the day-care crisis and won an Exceptional Merit Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus...
...their gardens can always grow edible flowers. Trendy cooks now sprinkle salads with nasturtiums, lavender petals and rose petals or make cold soup out of violets and scented geraniums. Those who experiment with gourmet gardening, cautions Rosalind Creasy, author of The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, should take care not to sample every blossom: lily of the valley and foxglove, for example, are poisonous. As for certain marigolds, they taste "like skunk," and some carnations "metallic." "I don't care if it's edible, if it's not palatable," she says...
...made itself. But I helped. I planted the seed in the ground. I watered it. I watched over it and admired its blind, thrusting determination to be and to grow. And that is all most of us can do for most of the things or the people we care about...
...garden, we assume the role of philosopher-king. While we learn that we cannot conquer nature, we also learn that we must make decisions of life or death. In a row of unthinned carrots, none ever grows to full size. Weeding is what we call our choices, our caring for what we want to care for, our rule...