Word: playful
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...Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics were just about to start Game 3 of the 1989 World Series on Oct. 17 when the shaking began. ABC play-by-play announcer Al Michaels managed to tell viewers, "We're having an earth-" before the signal went dead. The temblor was brief - just 15 seconds - but the damage caused by the 6.9-magnitude quake was impressive. It killed 63 people, injured thousands and caused $7 billion worth of damage throughout California's Bay Area, including major destruction to the Oakland Bay Bridge. "It was a good sized shock," says Peter Yanev, chairman...
...Crimson squad also had a late chance to make a mark on the scoreboard, earning three penalty corners in the last two minutes of first-half play. But Boston University goalkeeper Amanda Smith and the defense shut down each Harvard chance. On the second corner, Smith took a shot in the chest from junior Crimson standout Chloe Keating, preserving the Terriers’ 1-0 lead...
While Harvard came up short offensively, a positive aspect of the game was Tassopoulos’ stellar performance in goal. The freshman was recently named Ivy League Rookie of the Week and has been consistently rising to the test of college-level play...
...know, I think we maybe gave [them] a little bit too much credit,” he said. “We didn’t work the way we should’ve, didn’t play with real confidence on the ball...it was a poorly played game all around...
...What putting babies in front of this video does is deprive them of hands-on creative play, which is the foundation of learning," says Dr. Susan Linn, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and author of The Case for Make Believe. "Babies aren't asking to be put in front of these videos. They're not congregating in front of the watercooler to talk about Beyoncé. They don't get anything from the video that they couldn't gain from parents who play music around the house...