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...From TIME Online • Update: The Settlers' Lament Revisiting the three families from TIME's article as they leave their homes
...Settlers' Lament As Israel evacuates the Gaza Strip, TIME follows three American-Israeli families who face giving up the lives they have built there. Don't expect all of them to go quietly
...From TIME Online • Update: The Settlers' Lament Revisiting the three families from TIME's article as they leave their homes
...perhaps fitting that the media luminaries of his adopted country would lament the Canadian-born Jennings' passing; Cokie Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged about acing his 2003 citizenship exam, and was eager to exercise his new rights as a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. "What was so endearing in the 2004 election was just how excited he was to vote for the first time," says Roberts. "Last night, after I heard the news...
...tricky even to talk about teenagers before 1941, when the term is believed to have first appeared in print (in an article in Popular Science Monthly). Our notions of childhood are relatively recent innovations, and when parents lament that today's children "grow up too fast," it is worth asking "Compared with when?" For centuries, children were valued more for their economic than emotional contribution to family life. As late as 1708 in Britain, a child of 7 could be hanged for stealing, and some of the most dangerous factory jobs could be performed only by children because of their...