Word: nine-year-old
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...stolen Volkswagen truck roared along the chaotic main street of Nablus. As Kamel Salameh wove the VW through the morning rush-hour traffic, he slammed into nine-year-old Islam Atallah. She spun off the hood like a doll, dead. With screaming tires, Salameh turned his truck and sped off. He headed for Balata refugee camp at the edge of Nablus. The patrolmen chasing him were nervous. The camp is a no-go area for Yasser Arafat's police. Salameh swerved into Balata's narrow streets and disappeared. Soon after, the police found the truck abandoned, but Salameh had melted...
Monheit grew up on Long Island, N.Y., the child of musicians who discovered her perfect pitch when she was in grade school, and the student of teachers quickly nonplussed by a nine-year-old who wanted to talk about Ella Fitzgerald. At the Manhattan School of Music she fell under the tutelage of singer/arranger Peter Eldridge, who helped her shine her already polished skills...
...This collection ranges from "essays," like the self-explanatory, "I Hate Dali," to tales like "Peculiar Celebrity," about the wife of a high-school teacher. The strongest of these involves a nine-year-old girl who discovers a device in her great-aunt's basement. The story the aunt tells of the contraption has such charm and imagination I daren't reveal it except to give you the title: "Personality Records." (Note the clever sideways reference to the "RPM" of the book's title...
...nurse from Chandler, Ariz., and French, 42, a graduate student, made a symbolic pilgrimage to Vermont to wed each other. Tears streaming down their faces, the women, who have known each other for 18 years, exchanged rings; the Rev. Peter Denny proclaimed their union "the equivalent of marriage." That may be true in Vermont, but Arizona, where Kunz and French live with their nine-year-old daughter, doesn't recognize same-sex unions. They made the trip, says French, "because we wanted people to know how much it means for gay couples to get this kind of support...
...pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort for Bangkok's bar girls. If she can find a customer and save some money, she can visit her children out in Nakon Nayok. Her two daughters and nine-year-old son live with her uncle. Jacky sees them once a month, and she talks about how she likes to bring them new clothes and cook for them. When she talks about her kids, her almond-shaped eyes widen. "I used to dream of opening a small shop, like a gift...