Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benefits of reading to kids may seem obvious, but parents tend to stop just when the child's own ability to get through a book is taking flight. Don't quit then! says Regie Routman, a nationally recognized expert on literacy and author of several books for teachers. "Some of the best readers and writers--even in middle school and high school--have parents who are still reading to them. They'll be reading Beowulf and Macbeth and just enjoying the love of language with them...
...investors have been migrating to riskier assets like high-flying stocks and emerging-market securities in search of higher returns--leaving bonds and bank certificates of deposit behind. Now the inherent risk behind those high returns is becoming obvious, and the trend is reversing. This is the so-called flight to safety that you've heard about, and it's occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied up in stocks, to pros whose sophisticated strategies for dealing with risk have come unglued. The trend is very good...
...Amazonian rain forests. Even with all the colorful visual distractions sprinkled throughout the film, one can't help but notice the handling of this clumsy plot. The persistent "rain forests can cure anything" mantra is annoyingly condescending, but without it, one might as well be watching a per-flight nature video with complementary Vivaldi playing on the soundtrack. Incidentally, the musical score is one of the better aspects of the film. It is majestic, holy and beautiful, right when it needs to be and never gets out of hand...
WASHINGTON: Children's pajamas are flame-retardant ?- maybe airplanes should be too. That?s the brilliant conclusion the FAA has finally come to in the wake of the crash of Swissair flight 111. The agency, expecting new tests to show that the insulation in the bodies of almost all of the world's 12,000 passenger jets may catch fire when exposed to heat, officially recommended that the planes be retrofitted with new flame-retardant insulation...
Kristina Badalian, who visited Harvard for the weekend, was scheduled to fly back to the University of California at San Diego, where she is a student. Instead, she said she postponed her flight in order to hear Heaney speak...