Word: homework
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...being TV? This take on the theme is at least based on a book series, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Three boys use a magic tome to time-travel, meeting odd characters--including their great-granddaughters. It's a clever history lesson that doesn't feel like homework...
...prototypical adolescent, lobbying her mother for permission to attend a rock concert, asking if she can have a pet dog and complaining she is not allowed to do anything. The weight of her new responsibilities is just beginning to sink in. "Last night I couldn't get my homework done," she laments with a toss of her blond curls. "I kept feeding him and feeding him. Whenever you lay him down, he wants to get picked up." In retrospect she admits: "Babies are a big step. I should have thought more about...
...film genre has a less sexy name. Documentary: a five-syllable word that smells of parchment and sounds like homework. Who goes to the movies for a civics lesson? If people want to be harangued about how rotten the world is, they can listen to talk radio...
...Frank is someone that will do his homework...and is compassionate about what he did,ā€¯ says Sullivan...
...course, I want to do what's right for my child, but I also don't like to waste my money. So I decided to do some homework. What I learned is that unless your children are African Americans or some other minority who might have trouble finding a good genetic match, the odds that they will ever need their own cord blood are minuscule--perhaps 1 in 100,000. Since the early 1990s, when the Cord Blood Registry began taking deposits, only 37 families have come back to make withdrawals. "That's a very expensive insurance policy," says...