Word: childe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Character education is a return to the original goal of public education: to develop the whole child morally and intellectually. But TIME seemed to want to trivialize what is occurring in schools. You chose largely to make fun of the visible aspects of how character is taught rather than probe into the deeper and more meaningful teaching time in which character education is embedded in the curriculum and entire school climate. Children are much more engaged when they have reading or history lessons that draw out ethical and moral issues rather than just rote learning of names and dates...
...plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...
...looking forward to more leisure time once the kids leave for college, think again. Several new studies, noting that an increasing number of adults are caring for their aging parents, project that by 2005, fully 37% of U.S. workers will be more occupied with elder care than with child rearing. And it's not just families who are feeling the pinch. Estimates say employees who miss work in order to care for parents are already costing U.S. business as much as $29 billion a year in lost productivity...
This is an anthology film, tracing the history of the eponymous instrument from its creation in the 17th century to its predictable fate as--what else?--the centerpiece of frantic bidding in an auction in our own time. The violin is, at various points, owned by a monastery, a child prodigy and a victim of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. These stories, alas, are utterly predictable. Still, Samuel L. Jackson breaks through the crust of cliches as an expert called in to verify the instrument's provenance, and violinist Joshua Bell plays and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Corigliano's score...
...wrote, "I stood between two persons who were conversing and touched their lips. I could not understand, and was vexed. I moved my lips and gesticulated frantically without result. This made me so angry at times that I kicked and screamed until I was exhausted." She was a wild child...