Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe we have to instill a great deal of joy and confidence in our children before they get to be teenagers in order to protect them through those hard years. Parents tend to blame themselves for things that are culture-wide. The difference between moderate experimentation and catastrophic drug taking is vast. We should not get desperately alarmed about mild social experimentation. But we should get desperately alarmed about the child who is compelled to use drugs. The flat rules like "Just say no" are easy to pronounce but hard to enforce. It's so easy to make that kind...
...Brio Battery Engine $20; Brio; ages 3 and up Brio train sets, with their wooden tracks, magnetic cars and stylish bridges, are a much loved element in many toy collections. But the joy of pushing a train around eventually palls--and this battery-powered engine adds a little extra sizzle. It's too wide for at least one of Brio's bridges (duh), but it puts a lot more chug into an old favorite...
...western Massachusetts to chop down my own tree--unless, of course, I run out of other inspirational decorations to hang--but I think that a little holiday spirit can go a long way during the endless final weeks before vacation. The end of December doesn't bring the joy of closure that is felt at other schools with the end of exams. And the anticipation usually associated with the coming of the first snow is not an issue, since the first snow has long since come and gone almost a month before. All things considered, we could use a little...
...biggest draw for many musicians, however, is the sheer joy of being able to reach a global audience directly. As Rennie puts it, "The Net has returned a measure of control to the artist." Jeff Patterson, co-founder of IUMA, began by digitizing the music of his own band, Ugly Mugs, and posting it on Usenet newsgroups. "If it wasn't for the positive feedback we got, I think we would have stopped right there," he says. "I think a lot of it was that people realized they could distribute their work without going through the record distributors...
...pounds, two ounces; 20 inches long. Ordinarily, those figures would be a source of joy to new parents, instantly memorized and endlessly repeated. But the size of the child born to Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson Jr. will not be engraved on any birth announcements. In this case, the thought the numbers suggest is anything but joyful: Six pounds, two ounces; 20 inches long--what a tiny person to have been killed...