Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. In East Lansing, Mich., a "community tool box" provides tools necessary for home insulation. In Little Rock, Gloria Wilson, a mother of seven and the wife of a mechanic, dreads the first winter gas bill. She does not heat the living room or dining room of her seven-room home. Even so, her heat has been cut off for nonpayment five tunes in the past three years. Each reconnection has meant...
...which scientists believe is made up of icy debris and a smattering of organic molecules. Because comets have probably changed little since they were formed, data from the probe may reveal much about the early days of the solar system. Three years later, while swinging around the sun, the mother ship will rendezvous with a second comet called Tempel 2 and follow it for a year. During that time, it will continually observe all the changes the comet undergoes as it makes its fiery hairpin turn around the sun and heads off into space again. Then the craft will maneuver...
Tiny but hardly fragile, she flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of the slums" of Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money...
...that maimed him, the death in a skating accident of an older brother. Jamie, who was six when the accident occurred, imitated David, and even put on his clothes. But none of it did any good: Jamie remained the runt of the family, whereas the lost David, in his mother's eyes, would always be tall, handsome, ripe with promise. "When I became a man," Barrie noted sadly, "[Da-vid] was still...
...problem of a career was solved when Barrie discovered a talent for the sentimental stories favored by Victorians. He wrote about his mother, his childhood and, most particularly, about boys. The other problem-women-was more difficult. Sketching out a character, he noted: "Perhaps the curse of his life that he never 'had a woman.' " Whether that curse was autobiographical is moot, but In 1894, when he was 34, James did marry Actress Mary Ansell, the lead of his second play, Walker, London...