Word: grows
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Furthermore, the very definition of being a child--what makes him survive and grow--is being able to move up and down emotionally, having a basic elasticity. Says Dr. Peter Jensen, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health: "A child is more fluid and plastic than an adult. A child may look depressed one day because his dog died but seem O.K. three days later...
...your kids are under two, turn off all the lights in the room when you put them to bed at night. Don't even leave a night light on, unless you want to increase significantly the chances that your children will grow up nearsighted and have to wear glasses for the rest of their lives. That's the advice issued last week by a group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania. As someone who has needed glasses since fifth grade, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read their report in the current issue of Nature. It seemed...
...authors of the report. Practically the first words out of his mouth were, "We didn't prove anything." Then he went on to explain what he and his colleagues had found. They were following up a clue from the poultry industry, which has long known that baby chicks grow faster if you leave the lights on 24 hours a day. It turns out that their eyeballs grow longer as well--and long eyeballs is a pretty good description of what causes nearsightedness, also called myopia, in humans...
Eight minutes into this TV movie, George Janos tells his teenage son Jim: "You can be anything you wanna be." Sure as Jim will grow up to turn himself into Jesse ("the Body") Ventura and become Governor of Minnesota, you now know that this unauthorized biography will be more Afternoon Special than Slamboree. Nils Allen Stewart plays out the Jesse personas (Navy SEAL, bad-boy rassler, radio shock jock, maverick pol) with an engaging sweetness. In the end, though, five minutes of the real-life Jesse is far more...
Cobb said that although the PON has an excellent reputation, it must continue to grow and change...