Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching the second-grader fly across the rink was enough to give many of the hundreds of people who saw the show a moment's pause. One had to wonder whether Kelly O'Grady, talented as she may be, might have lacked, at the age of two, a deep interest in becoming a figure-skater. It was also hard not to imagine that had her parents been more interested in gymnastics, or classical music, we wouldn't instead be watching the young champion training for the Summer instead of the Winter Games, or fiddling away in Carnegie Hall...
...pink plastic bucket overflowing with Barbies, many half naked, with limbs askew, sits untouched these days on the bedroom floor. They haven't stood a chance since their owner, Allison Powers, a fifth-grader in Woodridge, Ill., discovered Addy and Samantha. "They're more realistic than Barbie," Allison says, "and they look cooler...
...other Toys "R" Us stores, while many customers praise the selection of games and toys, several complain about service and, surprisingly, prices. Third-grader Kirby Turnage IV, shopping in Pensacola, Fla., says that "my brother and sisters like Toys 'R' Us better, but I keep telling them Target is better. The prices are better." His father, Kirby Turnage III, observes that the Toys "R" Us lines are too long and that there is a "lack of customer service." And Denver Toys "R" Us shopper Tonya Howard says, "The people here have an attitude...
When Atlanta fifth-grader BRENDAN DUNWOODY wore a New York Yankees shirt to class last week, he knew he was committing a small act of subversion. It was, after all, Braves Spirit Day at his school, and his teacher had warned the transplanted New Yorker against wearing his native colors. When he showed up in his jersey anyway, she promptly--and according to his father, appropriately--made him change his uniform. The local act of defiance turned into a media maelstrom when a New York paper picked up the story. The school began receiving harassing calls, while the Dunwoodys' answering...
...rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate and with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still...