Word: nine-year-old
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...surrounded," a police official told the press. But the kingpin melted away at the last minute. His trackers were so close that Escobar was forced to leave behind two briefcases filled with soap, T shirts, blue jeans and dark glasses. There were also letters from his nine-year-old daughter Manuela -- "Dear Papa, I miss you a lot and wish I could see you" -- and his son Juan Pablo, 16. And there was a letter in Escobar's handwriting to his mother Hermilda, 70: he was tired and willing to turn himself in, he wrote, but he didn...
...Piano" begins, Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) has become the mail-order bride of Alistair Stewart (Sam Neill), a farmer in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand whom she has never met. Together with her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano, Ada makes the long voyage by sea from Scotland to New Zealand. When Stewart arrives to meet her, he refuses to transport her piano to their house, leaving it on the beach...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...
...improved, flying Robocop joins a group of homeless rebels who are fighting against the feds. Among the rebels is an orphaned, nine-year-old computer genius (Remy Ryan) who saves Robocop's life with her technological skill. But that's not it. She's cute...
...Education-technology researcher Barry Kort administers a child-oriented MUD in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where children learn by doing. Among its virtual worlds are the Land of Oz and a model of Yellowstone National Park, complete with spouting geysers and wandering moose. The Yellowstone world was built by a nine-year-old boy just back from a family vacation. "Instead of writing about what he did on his summer vacation," says Kort, "he built a working model of his summer vacation...