Word: nine-year-old
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...grandparents. "Guess what, I have my own cell phone," exclaimed the cutting-edge fourth-grader through her shiny, tricked-out handset. The perplexed, interstate scowls at other end of the line were easy to envision. "Why do you need that?" retorted her disapproving elders virtually in unison. My nine-year-old didn't have an immediate answer, but instinctively and ineffably, she knew she had arrived...
...Showing kids how book-learning relates to the real world is a central tenet of the new thinking. That's the chief reason the Henry Ford Academy, a nine-year-old charter school with a racially and academically mixed student body selected by lottery, was located on the grounds of the 12-acre Henry Ford Museum and its 100-acre companion site, the Greenfield Village. The museum and village's exhibits of antique vehicles, restored historic homesteads and artifacts bring academic concepts to life and serve as the bases for class projects. When eleventh graders study early-American economic systems...
...This lack of basic rights trickles down to the children who are often under women's care. "I saw a nine-year-old girl, who had just tested HIV-positive two weeks ago," continues Kim. "I had never seen a CD4 count so low; I could not believe she was still walking without blatant evidence of infection. I tried to impress upon her father the urgency of the situation, the full import of such an immunocompromised state, the dire need for ARVS, urging him to return as soon as possible for adherence counseling with a second caregiver. His response...
...sorrow after his tired heart finally packed in last week, it is the certainty that Len could not have extracted any more fun from his life. As we drove up to the Hunter last Thursday, my daughters in the back seat heard a brief tribute on the radio. Nine-year-old Emily asked, "Do you think Grandpapa had done everything he wanted to?" "He never got to Barcelona," I said-the beleaguered heart had several times frustrated his desire to see Gaud?'s architecture- "but I can't think of anything else...
...There may well be parents who are reluctant to give their nine-year-old in pigtails a vaccine against a sexually transmitted disease, that the very idea makes them incomfortable. But you have to wonder. It's not just that most nine-year-old girls don't know what a cervix is. Or that most doctors won't declare, as they administer the vaccine, "There! Now when you go out and have promiscuous, unprotected intercourse with strangers, at least there is one less sexually transmitted disease to worry about...