Word: five-year-old
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...like those of most students, are often booked solid. For Bodley, it's not debating practice or piano lessons that keep her busy but rather a $6.25-an-hour job cooking at a convention center. After her shift ends at 6 p.m., she must baby-sit for her five-year-old niece, often until 10 p.m. Only then does she begin to think about hitting the books. "I have too many other responsibilities, and I can't focus on my homework," says Bodley. And when she can't focus? Without a note of chagrin, she admits, "I just...
Though too few in number ("The agencies tell us they could easily make use of 300," says Friedman.), ACE volunteers enjoy a reputation for being well screened and well prepped before they are placed. Public confidence is likely to grow even more now that five-year-old ACE has procured its first grant. Last month, with $23,879 from a local foundation, ACE began offering its recruits 15 hours of professional training in how to identify physical and mental-health problems in the population they serve...
...Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon, a fable of a five-year-old trying to retrieve lost money, was an art-house hit. Panahi's superb new film sends another little girl (Mina Mohammad Khani) on a quest through the streets of Tehran: her mother has not come to pick her up after school, so she figures she'll get home on her own. Mina has star quality to burn. Turns out she also has a star's attitude. Halfway through, she shouts, "I'm not acting anymore!" and storms off. The Mirror, broken in two, now becomes a little...
...other petroleum products mingle with the groundwater. The result is a nasty mix that is unusable to residents. Many of the town's wells are also contaminated with potentially deadly E. coli pollutants. So a commodity most Americans take for granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have sought $750,000 from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission...
...databases that allow them to match up graduates who are looking for career guidance and job contacts from other alumni. About 8,000 graduates of UCLA, out of a total of 276,000, use the university's alumni database annually, says Cindy Chernow, director of the institution's five-year-old alumni career-services department...