Word: hugs
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...most children, a hug is all it takes to treat the bruise from a playground fall. But when Dalton Dawes collided with a classmate on his first day of preschool three years ago, the bleeding inside his shoulder would not stop. Dalton, an 8-year-old with fine blond hair and intelligent blue eyes who lives in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, is a hemophiliac. What prevents the mishaps of childhood from killing him is $2,000-a-week injections of a medication called Mononine. But no private insurer will cover Dalton, so his parents, Leonard Poe and Heather...
...know the words to our alma mater, I will still remember the words to the songs at every Disney attraction. My children may never rub the foot of John Harvard, but I’ll see to it that they give Mickey Mouse a great big hug...
...just fine. Everybody stay home and love. Doesn’t matter who or how—just love. Adopt a puppy, go on a road trip with your best friend, buy something black with a bit of lace. Whatever. That guy down the hall who needs a hug, give him a hug. Haven’t called your mom in a while? Great, give her a ring. Ask the girl with a great sense of humor out for coffee. Yes, that’s a holiday I’d like, a holiday I think I could get excited...
...months when we meet them, they have already learned to hide their inner thoughts. "We don't have feelings anymore," says Tip. "We cleared them out." But they can still dream of freedom, can still tell us they want out. They talk about how hard they would hug their mothers if they ever get home, so tightly no one could ever separate them again. "My mother would be really upset if she knew what I was doing and I desperately want to tell her," says Lek. "But I can't because it would break her heart. Every time I speak...
...drag him back to last year, to the days when his presidency lacked a clear purpose. The President wants to go in the opposite direction, wrapping the entire country--Democrats included--in a warm, unifying embrace, complete with new proposals to foster volunteerism and charity. Safe inside that hug of unity, he dares the Democrats to break the mood that faced down terrorism. A senior official predicted to TIME that voters who care about Enron and its White House ties will lose interest after the next big bombing raid. If Bush has his way, investigating the Administration's links...