Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the plane landed, a cabin cleaner heard a muffled cry from a cabinet beneath the sink. There, covered with paper towels, was a newborn girl, umbilical cord still attached. The 8-lb. 9-oz. infant appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but otherwise seemed healthy. After the mother, Christina LoCasto, 24, of Staten Island, N.Y., turned herself in, authorities charged her with child endangerment. The 5-ft. 7-in., 155-lb. woman had not appeared pregnant to flight attendants, and even her husband says he was unaware of her condition...
...thunderstorm pounding Mexico City was fierce enough to suggest that the ancient Aztec deities were mightily displeased. Nevertheless, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas had no trouble assembling more than 100 journalists last Monday night outside his mother's house, the unofficial headquarters of his quixotic presidential campaign. "The figures that we have received show that I have won," he intoned as lightning sliced ominously through the black sky. "We won. Definitely." At precisely that moment, the house went pitch dark, the electricity knocked out by the storm...
...meet Charlie, the eight year-old newt expert who, with his best friend Servin, hopes to capture a giant turtle in the marshes near his house. We meet his father Ivan, an astronomer whose obsession is to study the supernova in Chile, and his mother Polly, a professional photographer who feels as though she does not spend enough time with her children. And Hoffman also introduces us to the 11 year-old Amanda, whose goals are simple--to study gymnastics with Bela Karyouli and to have her braces...
...life, but we also watch it destroy the lives of her family and her friends. Polly and Ivan begin to argue and then cease to communicate at all, as each parent tries to justify his daughter's death. Charlie retreats into his own thoughts when his best friend's mother refuses to let Servin play with him anymore because she feels her son might catch AIDS from touching Charlie's hand...
...strangers in on their newfound knowledge. Questions about how they were enjoying the exhibits usually drew blank stares from the young scientists. When they did answer, they stuck strictly to the empirical. "I'm poking a sponge," said one, who quickly retreated to the comfort of her nearby mother...