Word: leah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...
ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...
...cast really deserves a hand for pulling off a difficult feat with grace. Particularly noteworthy is Leah Nutting as the tyrannical bridge-playing editor Betty Scant. Any writer who has ever suffered under the tyrannical hand of a tasteless editor will marvel at the verisimilitude she brings to her tirades, considering that she has a red polygon perched on her noggin. If only all our editors were so well dressed...
...when? Clearly there are no absolute rules. Variations depend on how each child is maturing, even where a family lives. Children from rural backgrounds, particularly farms, are more in tune with sex and reproductive cycles than their supposedly sophisticated urban counterparts. The experts offer general guidelines based on experience. Leah Lefstein, acting director of the Center for Early Adolescence in Chapel Hill, N.C., notes, "Kids are aware of human sexuality at an earlier age than we give them credit for. They are three years old when they want to know where babies come from." And they can understand simple, descriptive...
ADMINISTRATIVE EDITOR: Leah Shanks Gordon...