Word: fines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Greatest Dad" mug, you may be frantically calling home to ask why their washing machine keeps spinning your clothes but never wets them. (They have thoughtfully left the instructions out, but they're in Dutch.) The thought of strangers in your home doing Lord knows what to your fine furniture and china may be enough to spoil your stay at their castle on the Rhine...
While Harris' project may seem shallow, the idea of choosing an egg donor based on physical characteristics is hardly new. Several egg businesses already let clients select donors by race, weight, height, eye color or hair color, not to mention such preferences as "fine boned" and "tanning ability." Harris isn't the first to charge for eggs either: virtually all egg donors are in fact sellers, at a typical rate of between $3,000 and $5,000 per ovum, plus medical expenses. And an unnamed egg-seeking couple put an ad in several college papers last winter offering...
...Says James Squires, an early-education consultant for the Vermont department of education: "We need to give these kids more time in the classroom, but we should still try to preserve childhood for them as well." Child-development experts and educators say reading and math instruction can be fine for kindergartners, as long as they're also allowed to learn through play and creative activities. And like the rest of us, they also benefit from a snack and a nap now and then...
...Fine, but will those who get their first look at Greed this Thursday think it's worth watching? The game's rules seem harder than its questions (see boxes). A team of six members tries to move up the "Tower of Greed," ascending from $25,000 to $2 million questions. One wrong answer and the team loses everything. As the prize money escalates, "terminator rounds" pit contestants against one another. The most interesting question on Greed is, Which team player will start tossing mates overboard in a mad pursuit of the one-winner-takes-all top prize...
When a friend of mine spoke about sex with her 13-year-old daughter, who protested that she already knew everything, my friend said, "That's fine, but now I want you to hear these things from me." What a great answer! A conversation about sex is a perfect time to convey your values to your kids. It's far better for them to learn the facts of life from you than from Ally McBeal, the Starr Report, Billy in biology class or...a veterinarian and a barn full of cows...