Word: childless
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...street. Of all the improbable images from Iraq's historic election day, none captured the mood of the nation better than the sight of children flying out into the open. There have been times since the fall of Saddam Hussein when Iraq's cities have seemed childless, as parents have tried to shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer...
...form, it combines wild, fever-dream visions with dark, existentialist gag humor. Beyer takes all the clich?s of the traditional "laugh-a-day" strip and turns them inside out. The typically cute, bourgeois family of the dailies has been replaced by Amy and Jordan, a fear-filled, childless couple who live in a nameless city full of bugs, aliens, dirt and neighbors like Dame Head, who is just a head on a platter. Their Dadaist adventures include having their apartment building dragged out of town by the vermin who live with them. "They couldn't stand the city...
...insist they are neither too old nor too wise for rap. They make an excellent case for themselves. Yauch fantasizes about building a medieval catapult on his roof to shower fruit on his neighbors. Diamond asks charmingly tactless questions about the salaries of TIME employees. Horovitz, the only childless Beastie, proudly calls himself Uncle Fart Joke. Even their music, which they take kind of seriously, is something of a gag. Diamond: "People ask us about this album like there's some kind of point. We've got no mission statement. We've got no plan." Yauch: "Basically, we just went...
...personality" based on how it's treated, bleating out 285 phrases in the voice of a 5-year-old boy. Japanese toy giant Bandai first marketed the doll to children. Instead, says a spokeswoman, 70% of the 800,000 sold have gone to women ages 40 and older--"grandparents, childless couples, single-child families...
...both parents to work, and still they are stretched too thin. It is this phenomenon, Warren and Tyagi argue, that has made having a child "the single best predictor" of financial ruin. Married couples with children are more than twice as likely to file for bankruptcy as childless couples; they are 75% more likely to be late paying bills and also more likely to face foreclosure on their homes...