Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents hard-pressed by the multiple demands of careers and child rearing, arranging visits and maintaining communication between grandparents and grandchildren can be an additional chore. Why bother? There are selfish reasons. "Marriages flourish with helpful grandparents. Helping with kids--giving parents and children a break from routines--is one of the greatest gifts grandparents can give," says Kornhaber...
...love was learned, not born." After the 1990 death of her husband, she continued a stepgrandparenting tradition of more than two decades. She spent three days last year traveling in Britain with one of her four stepgrandchildren, Samantha Sarvat, 18. Says Samantha: "I never saw my grandmother laugh so hard or look so happy." That's the main thing: the blended family offers stepgrandparents an opportunity to play a unique role, in which all share in the rewards...
...Gore campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., where the Vice President is moving his campaign, members of his team will be hard at work gathering a response to Bradley's first big policy salvo. Soon they are likely to have lots of colorful pie charts showing how the Vice President's policies will work out. Their efforts are a direct response to Bradley's momentum and money: the former Senator pulled even last week with the Vice President's once invincible fund-raising machine. The Vice President, under assault, has also called for debates. They will be an opportunity "to rekindle...
This is an album as quietly reverent as its title. Lilith Fair veteran Paula Cole tries hard to be a soul sister--according to the liner notes, one song, Suwannee Jo, was "inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God"; another track features a guest appearance by singer Tionne ("T-Boz") Watkins of the R.-and-B./hip-hop trio TLC. Cole even raps on one track. The main problem, though, is that the music is all too polite. Cole's last CD, This Fire, had moments of wild art-rock invention; here, she is content to relax...
...hard as I've tried to fathom the peculiar fascination many men (and a few women) have with gory video games, I'm still stumped. Why would anyone want to waste hours on end blowing up imaginary bad guys? Have they no shame? Then again, maybe I'm just jealous. Ever since I overdosed on Tetris in the early '90s, there just haven't been any games that thrilled me for more than an hour or two. Until now. The elegant and addictive Pandora's Box (Microsoft; $35)--which, not coincidentally, was created by Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov--has kept...