Word: childe
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There is an excellent education lurking here for the child with an inner flashlight. The best teachers arrive early and leave late and wrestle to make everything they teach mean something, and they all show up at the football game at the end of the week, their own kids in tow, cheering their students on and mixing and meddling with their lives in the bleachers. Walk down the halls, stop and listen in, and you can hear those moments of collision and discovery. "Some of you were complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making...
Webster Groves has made a conscious decision to try to control the weather. The school would much rather prevent a disaster than clean up after one--which means that a child who so much as murmurs a threat toward himself or a teacher or another student is immediately under the microscope. But still the tempests come. "Drinking is the biggest problem," says police captain Doug Jacobs, class of '59, "and the parents that allow it." A child from a prominent family has a beer-and-booze party in the backyard while Mom and Dad are not home. There...
Fortunately, JERRY HALL has a big house to match her big heart. Since being granted a divorce from MICK JAGGER in August after it was revealed that he had fathered a child with another woman, Hall has demonstrated her capacity for forgiveness by continuing to appear with him in public and going on joint vacations with their four children. And proving that divorce does not have to mean the end of a relationship, the two are said to be making plans to spend New Year's Eve together in France. Now comes word that Hall has allowed the midnight rambler...
Clark is the perfect Silicon Valley Man, though he was born "somewhere below the poverty line" in Plainview, Texas. His father abandoned the family when he was a child, and his mother should have been on welfare, but it "never occurred to her," Lewis writes. Clark, a classic malcontent, enlisted in the Navy after high school, was misevaluated and put in a class for especially slow delinquents, shipped out to sea, came back and was retested, this time scoring so well in math that it baffled his instructors...
After reading the revelations in the book Einstein's Daughter about the physicist's illegitimate child [HISTORY, Oct. 4], I felt it was tragic that Einstein chose to pursue his career plans and left others to care for his newborn daughter. I have always had great respect for Einstein's brilliant scientific accomplishments. Sadly, his character flaws were just as enormous as his intellect was exceptional. Ultimately, proof of his selfish behavior will diminish Einstein's legacy. Instead, he will become a prime example of how men can master difficult branches of knowledge but lack the wisdom to love their...