Word: playground
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...oppose U.S. attempts to extend its missile defense umbrella to its allies in Asia. "Both countries are concerned about the threat of internal disintegration, and that adds to the incentive to cooperate," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And both want to stop the world becoming a playground for the U.S. But centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility tend to make such alliances between them shortlived." Moscow and Beijing are expected to conclude a deal this week in which Russia will sell a large number of SU-30 jet fighters and other military hardware to China. Although border disputes...
...than two weeks after its release in Britain, the book has gone through 10 printings and sold 270,000 copies, outstripping its nearest competitor, Thomas Harris' Hannibal. "I haven't seen anything quite like this," says Caroline Horn, children's book editor at Bookseller magazine. "It happened in the playground...
PLAY SAFE Two out of five playground injuries result from inadequate parental supervision. To make these areas less dangerous for little ones, the National Program for Playground Safety in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is offering guidelines for redoing sites from the '60s and '70s that have concrete aprons and hidden passages. In their place it recommends colorful ramps and stairs with clear sight lines for parents...
...supposed to be small. The day my oldest boy Carl beat (trounced) me in one-on-one--at last, killed his dad!--I fumed like a Nero, stalked off, refused to shake his hand. I'm surprised that I did not disappear through a crack in the playground...
...other classes have been pushed into dusty corners of the basement. The acting principal, Dianne Scott, wears sneakers to hike to annexes No. 8 and No. 3, which are more than four blocks away, but hip waders would have been better during a storm on May 24. The playground flooded, and she had to pull two classes out of trailers that looked like houseboats...