Word: playground
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...Entremont and his nine-year-old friend Ryan Kelso were awarded badges and paperweights by the Cambridge Police Department Wednesday for their responsible actions when the two discovered a loaded 9mm gun in a Cambridge playground...
...boys were playing at Sennott Park, on the corner of Prescott and Broadway streets, Monday morning when Kelso discovered the gun in some bushes which border the playground...
While describing Power Ranger-style battles hehas observed on the playground, McCroskey notedthat play-fighting has sometimes resulted inserious injury to the children involved, includingone injury that required hospitalization...
While cyberspace is still a murky universe for many grownups, it is becoming a playground of vibrant invention for more and more of America's children. TIME got a keen sense of just how innovative these computer kids can be when we invited students from the U.S. and Canada to submit their online creations to our first Internet contest...
...rich enough for parents to pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in tony Brentwood, California (where one parent periodically sends her gardener over to tend the grounds), raised $78,000 to subsidize a computer instructor, a librarian, a music and art teacher and teachers' aides. "If we didn't have...