Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexes involved, and is not synonymous with homosexuality. Brown and Carpenter were roommates, and the details of their relationship have not been revealed, but evidence taken from their house - handwritten fantasy scenarios involving children, as well as diagrams and instructions on how to sedate, tie up and position a child - indicates a strong interest in pedophilia...
...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...
...candidate forum last month, Walser cited sociological evidence to argue that the single best predictor of a child's academic success is the mother's level of education...
HEAD COUNT When a child experiences a severe blow to the head--in a car or bike accident, for instance--there may be an unexpected consequence: the onset of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. A small study shows that within a year of injury, 20% of kids develop the behavioral problem. Interestingly, researchers found that all the children with ADHD had developed lesions in the same area, deep in the right side of the brain...
...when an irregular word is still fresh in the mind, it is fragile. If a child's memory cannot cough up held quickly enough, he or she adds -ed by default and says holded instead...