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...risque item popularized as a tool of seduction by Monica Lewinsky become the de rigueur fashion for eighth-and ninth-graders? Yet the trend is undeniable. Sales of thongs to tweens (a market now defined ridiculously broadly as ages 7 to 12) have quadrupled since 2000, from a modest $400,000 to $1.6 million, according to NPD Fashionworld, a market-tracking firm. And there's nothing skimpy about what girls ages 13 to 17 spent on thongs last year: $152 million, or 40% of their overall spending on underpants. Do their mothers know...
...says Tel Aviv University psychology professor Avi Sadeh. According to his research with kids ages 9 to 12, even modest reductions in sleep diminish a child's alertness, concentration and memory--all necessary components of academic success. Similarly, his study of 77 fourth- and sixth-graders, published last spring in the journal Child Development, found that extending sleep just 40 to 60 min. can markedly improve classroom performance. "Between the TV and the Internet, parents often feel like they've lost the battle to get their kids to bed," concedes Sadeh. "But they really must become more assertive in setting...
...grown bigger at each installment. How much bigger? At the '87 Cup, France and Australia played a semifinal that is widely regarded as among the best matches ever played, with France winning with a majestic try at the death. The venue for that match was the modest Concord Oval in suburban Sydney, and a mere 17,000 people were there to see it. Five times that number will pay to see the equivalent match at this Cup, not least because they recognize that the standard of rugby has soared. "So many countries are strong this time," says Reuben Thorne, captain...
Despite the accolades, Rosenbluth was modest about his accomplishments. His self-authored faculty profile on the UCSD website says simply, “I am a theoretical plasma physicist with a particular interest in the physics of magnetic confinement fusion devices...
Driving down 1525 West, a quiet road in Farmington, Utah, you pass meditative cows, grassy fields, a few modest houses. Then, on the west side of the road, a mirage looms: 10.5 acres of colorful, pint-size railroad trains chugging out of a replica 1920s station house, snaking through tunnels, over bridges, past waterfalls and man-made mountains. Here live Steve Flanders and his accommodating wife Susan, who over eight years watched her husband turn their farm--and her carefully tended flower beds--into a model-railroad park...