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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after the tragedy, the emotion settled next to me on the couch in the home of a close friend. You see, my friend Chris lost a friend and a member of his squadron that day--Squadron...
...Then my friend showed me an image that I will never forget--one less personal but far more effective in showing exactly what school spirit is about...
Here are mine: the television should not be on during mealtime or while a child is doing homework. Kids should ask an adult for permission before turning it on. Parents should convey to their children that watching television is a planned activity. A friend of mine goes through the TV listings with his three sons to discuss what they'd like to watch, and I think that's a great idea. The TV should be turned off when a particular show is over. Parents should also make an effort to become familiar with the shows that their kids watch. Television...
...seems like a no-brainer. Call waiting has been around for more than a decade, so why does it slip into a coma when I'm surfing the Web on my home computer and a friend tries to call me on the same line? After all, a modem connection is just another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will...
Michael Lee Davis is probably the last guy from whom you'd want to buy life insurance. True, he does have some experience in the field. Davis, a.k.a. Walter Waldhauser Jr., spent most of the 1980s in prison for hiring a hit man to wipe out a friend's family in order to get a share of their life-insurance proceeds. But after being released on parole, Davis found a new line of insurance work: a largely unregulated offshoot of the business called viaticals...