Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them beaming at each other; my father posted a little sign at the bottom of the picture: COUNT YOUR FINGERS. Historical continuities: Brooke Astor, now 97, remembers the day when, as a little girl, she shook the hand of Henry Adams. I recall the day when I was a child working for the summer as a Senate page and the aged Herbert Hoover visited the Senate chamber, not a celebrity so much as a curiosity. He looked like a Rotarian Santa Claus. After the Senators and pages all shook his hand--a dry hand, soft and bony at the same...
...first e-mail, of course, had not come from AOL HQ. Some enterprising (and cowardly) porn-site operator had been looking for an AOL account to "bounce" his spam mailings out of--in this case, 1,700 of them. Once someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account...
...survey in the journal Pediatrics, 28% of parents polled said they keep a firearm at home. Of those, 52% say they keep their weapons loaded or unlocked. And 74% believe their kids ages 4 to 12 can distinguish between a toy and a real gun. So if your child is going to play at a friend's home, it's wise to ask whether guns are present and unlocked...
...reporting that more than half of America's students learn math and science from instructors who are not qualified to teach the subjects. And the demand for qualified teachers is rising faster than the supply. What can parents do? Some schools allow you to request certain teachers for your child. If your school is one of them, check the credentials of the available candidates before you state your preferences...
Whoever said "waste not, want not" hasn't had much influence on 276 million Americans. In 1997 we gave a collective heave-ho to more than 430 billion lbs. of garbage. That means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...