Word: crayon
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DRAWING A REACTION One way many kids coped with 9/11 was to pick up a crayon. We excerpt eight drawings about the tragedy from New York City-area artists ages 8 to 17 first published in The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11...
...It’s an artsy house, so some of us said we’re visual and environmental studies concentrators, and we’re going to do crayon drawings of Adams to help us get in,” she said...
...What's spurring this underage boozy behavior? Some point fingers at lax government oversight and barely enforced age limits on drinking. Others, including CASA, place much of the blame on advertisers. Critics charge that sweet, crayon-hued drinks in ads are designed specifically to nab young drinkers. CASA is particularly unhappy with NBC, the only network to break the 50-year voluntary ban on running liquor ads on television...
...last student to come to the front lost a relative in the towers. He asks Mike to read his card, a Christmas tree rendered in crayon on blue construction paper. "I like you because you saved so many people in the Twin Towers," says Mike, tripping over the little boy's handwriting. "Thank you for trying to save everybody's life. You are very brave. Too bad you didn't save more people. I wish you could have saved Kris...
...government finally allowed them to leave with the excuse that they needed foreign medical care. It's the latest chapter in a dramatic ordeal for the family. Fifteen members had crossed the border to China by 1999. One boy, Jang Gil Su, then acquired anonymous fame through his crayon depictions of life in North Korea. The simple, cartoon-like pictures showed confessions from prisoners and a starving man cooking human body parts in a big pot. Smuggled into South Korea and published in a book, they generated tremendous sympathy. Jang's life since then has given him new and terrible...