Word: playground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to pick off a few of them." His warning to parents: "You can't just put a computer in your kids' bedroom, hook it up to the Internet and expect them not to run into trouble. That's like dropping your kids off at the playground at 7 a.m. and not coming back till 7 p.m. Anything can happen to them." As Operation Cheshire Cat shows, there are monsters hiding in plain sight, right in the middle of Main Street...
...argument with power, but that's partly because she doesn't brake for subtleties. A classic 1928 study, she writes, found that children who violated rules at home "were not noticeably more likely than anyone else to cheat on a test at school or in a game on the playground." Actually, that study did find some correlation between honesty inside and outside the home. And psychologist Douglas Jackson has reanalyzed the data with modern statistical techniques and found a very high correlation...
Tony Bennett has released his first children's album, The Playground. His autobiography, The Good Life, will be out in November...
Summer is the season for it. I dream and see the children when they were children, one at a time, standing on a lawn or on a playground, waiting for the ball to reach them. Their hug-me arms waver in the hot, wet air, as if they are attempting to embrace something vast and invisible. Their eyes blink in the sunlight. They stagger and stumble...
...important message to Japanese leaders. "Japan's recession can drag the whole world down with it, and the Administration has been upset with Hashimoto's failure to act," says Kadlec. "Washington has been doing whatever it can to put pressure on Japan to save its economy." Crossing the playground to make nice with Beijing may have done the trick...