Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some educators bristle at bringing such touchy-feely topics into an already overcrowded curriculum. "I know of no evidence that marriage courses lead to better marriages," says Brookings Institution senior fellow Diane Ravitch. "But I do know of a great deal of evidence that schools are doing a poor job teaching math, science, history, literature and foreign languages." Then there's the question of whether kids who watch Dawson's Creek and get free condoms at school are thinking in the long term. Says University of Washington marriage expert John Gottman: "They should be learning about dating...
...then it's back to Maryland, where Lecter rents a lavish house not terribly far from the modest duplex of FBI special agent Starling, his antagonist/confidant during the period seven years earlier, covered in Silence. Verger's people know that Lecter, for complex reasons buried in his own psychoses, wants either to kill Starling or to protect her or, possibly, madman that he is, to protect her by killing her, and they hit upon a way to use her as bait to draw him to his presumed doom...
...know, I know. Cigars aren't just for grandfathers anymore, or even just for men. And in case you missed the cigar's rebounding popularity, there are plenty of cigar magazines, cigar dinners and cigar charity auctions to remind you. What they don't emphasize--but what doctors have known for a while--is that smoking cigars on a regular basis significantly increases your risk of developing emphysema as well as cancers of the lung, lip, throat and esophagus. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine added to that grim list, reporting that cigar smoking also boosts your risk...
...gets off to a shaky start at the home of a born-again Christian who shoots her in a fit of righteous jealousy. She survives that, though, as well as prison notes from her mother, which include sentiments like this: "Sometimes I wish you were dead, so I would know you were safe." Fitch tends to get lost in the lyricism of her prose, but there are satisfying moments of clarity in this ambitious debut novel...
...miss Shane. Now that I know he's not that talented, powerful or smooth with the ladies, my Hollywood dream is just a fun, overpaid desk job. Because even Comedy Central pays better than TIME. I think it has something to do with the fact that on TV the ads move. People seem to like that...