Word: caterpillar
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...number are the parents who have made it through their toddler's years on just one copy of Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Dream Snow has similar ingredients: a simple story, lively collage-like illustrations and a fun gimmick for little hands: the animals are hidden under a blanket of snow that can be lifted off. And at the end of the book is a wee Christmassy surprise, just enough to be cute rather than cloying...
Granted, the Republican presidential candidate is no intellectual superstar. One of his favorite books is the children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, while Al Gore opts for The Red and the Black, a 19th century page-turner by the French author Henri Stendhal. But let's be honest here--who reads Stendhal, really? (Aside from the Paris-bound Alec Baldwin, perhaps.) The fact is, people of average intelligence often make excellent presidents (Truman, Reagan, even FDR) while brilliant chief executives like Hoover, Nixon, Carter and Clinton tend to trip over their own feet. Intellectual snobbery is all well...
...more likely to catch Dick Cheney on the campaign trail if you're a seven-year-old. The man likes a school and listening to his wife Lynne read The Very Hungry Caterpillar--a captive audience under adult supervision, and no rope line. Cheney's staff quickly penciled in a school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only...
...more likely to catch Dick Cheney on the campaign trail if you're a seven-year-old. The man likes a school and listening to his wife, Lynne, read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar": a captive audience under adult supervision, and no rope line. Cheney's staff quickly penciled in a school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund-raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only...
...Protestors win a victory when the Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility votes to demand that the Caterpillar Tractor Company disclose information on its activities in South Africa. Less than a week later, the University votes for the same action against General Electric and votes to have the Phillips Petroleum Company withdraw from Namibia...