Word: homework
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...doubled in the past two years alone--logged on to the Internet. The vast majority did not encounter recipes for pipe bombs or deranged rants about white supremacy. Most were getting sports scores, downloading the most recent Britney Spears cut, chatting with friends. Some were even doing their homework, tapping into colorful libraries of information on the rain forests, data about particle physics, essays on Hamlet...
...herself into instant parenthood. Yet despite the many hours she has spent caring for her stepchildren, Hermes says they are often angry at her. "I'm there, and I'm doing all these mother things," she says. "I'm making their lunch, and I'm helping them with their homework, and I'm doing all of this stuff every day through the week, and I feel like I don't really get any appreciation...
...feel so lucky that I knew about this," she said. "I encourage people to do their homework and find out about [fellowships...
...Earth Day in schools across America is a special issue of TIME FOR KIDS, TIME's classroom magazine. The issue is the culmination of an effort begun in the fall, when TFK issued a challenge to its readers in Grades 4 through 6. This challenge was not for the homework faint-of-heart: students were asked to conceive, plan and execute a project that would improve some aspect of the environment in their community. TFK promised to publish a report on standout projects in the last of its three-part series of environment-themed special issues, produced with the support...
Kids, beware of enterprising teachers. You never know when they may put your homework up for auction. Robert Hunter, the high school art teacher of deceased Nirvana singer and enduring cult figure KURT COBAIN, recently consigned some of the musician's work to Christie's auction house for an upcoming sale. Among the items, a signed pencil and watercolor depiction of Michael Jackson and a graphite on paper rendering of then-President Ronald Reagan, below. The latter earned high marks from Hunter ("Kurt, your caricatures are outstanding. 10/10, A"). Christie's appraisers, apparently, favored the Jackson, assigning...