Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second in the state of New York. I danced for Alvin Ailey. I had a pony and a horse. I took music lessons. I can play flute, clarinet and piano. Everyone always talks about TV shows they remember. The only show I remember watching as a child was DuckTales. I was in Miss New York when I was eight or nine. I was first runner...
Santa and the elves see that as a good thing, though--it gives Savage more time with each child...
...latter comes the Freedom system, the most comprehensive software package ever to limit the traceability of Internet usage. Produced by Montreal tech firm Zero-Knowledge Systems, the software has been long awaited by privacy advocates, and long dreaded by groups battling cyber-evils such as web-based child-porn rings. How it works: Surfers who purchase the $50 software are given five digital aliases. While web sites can normally trace a user's travel on the Net directly to a specific PC, with the aliases, your travel is linked to nothing but a number, and Zero-Knowledge keeps no records...
Critics say the ADHD "epidemic" - which, depending on who's giving the diagnosis, can cover nearly any child who's ever nodded off in class or can't stand waiting in lines - is merely a social byproduct of modernity: Children raised on cable television and video games have short attention spans. But by siding with medicine as the treatment of choice, the NIMH says that there's a clear biological component that can be chemically modified. That's not to say that every time a kid acts up we should drug him. "This is not just handing out Ritalin...
...Most child-custody wars mean profit for some (the lawyers for both sides) and pain for others (the child and his parents). In the case of Elian Gonzalez, too, the winners are the ones pulling the strings, but in this case it is the Cuban government and the large Cuban-exile community in Florida who are reaping the benefits of a family tragedy. That situation became even more apparent Monday as U.S. negotiators prepared to meet with their Cuban counterparts for biannual talks on immigration amid a frenzy of anti-American protests sparked off by the case...