Word: padded
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...Harvard we’re encouraged to pad and perfect our resumes, to schmooze and network and kiss all kinds of ass. Women here want to be CEOs and sit behind the Oval Office desk. This is all normal and I, too, am ambitious. But during this quasi-crisis, I feel like I have to choose between professional success and personal (maternal) happiness. I’d like to be able to prepare an afternoon snack for my kids and go to all their T-ball games and still have 800 employees, but I’m scared...
Moore was right. This time, Danis didn’t put a pad on Moore’s shot and it slipped by him along the ice on his glove side...
...Dancing Queen at fjord-rattling volume. Younger children might do better with Vtech's DJ Karaoke Studio ($39.99, ages 3 and older, available this fall), a surprisingly comprehensive little music machine with a working microphone, a one-octave keyboard and 24 preset tunes. There's even a baby scratch pad for extra flava...
More sedate infants may prefer Barney's Move 'n Groove Dance Mat from Fisher-Price ($30, 1 1/2 years and older, available in July). It's a big pressure-sensitive pad with an animatronic Barney at one end. The mat plays Barney standards, and when a kid stands on the mat and dances, Barney senses the movements and dances along. There's also a keyboard at one end so kids can jam with the tune by stepping on the keys (think of the Chopsticks scene in Big). While Barney's musical oeuvre isn't exactly inspiring, as musical dinosaurs...
...what came after his men had finished their job that has come to define this year. The first page of a new century had unfolded neat as a legal pad, a few scribbles in the margins, but nothing worth underlining. There were worries. There were fears that cell phones would cause brain cancer. Fears that we were overprescribing antibiotics. Drinking too much arsenic. That sharks were stalking us. The lights went out in California. There was the fight over stem cells, the fear about clones. Do we drill in the Arctic? On Sept. 10, Congress was debating another...