Word: playground
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...many others, I suspect--the lonely, introverted process of statistically quantifying my strength and stamina levels and comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete...
...first time I was bullied was on the playground when I was in the fourth grade. The last time occurred when I was in a ninth-grade classroom. The only difference: in the fourth grade I was a student, and in ninth grade I'm the teacher! Katherine Mary Riniker Keil Dubuque, Iowa...
...small, unmanned vehicle barreled on minitank tracks across the tarmac, looking more like a playground toy than a sophisticated and lethal weapon of war. But as its six high-powered cameras and thermal-imaging night sight scanned the crowd and its menacing M-249 machine gun turned in search of targets, soldiers and civilians nervously scattered out of its path, just in case...
...first time I was bullied was on the playground when I was in the fourth grade. The last time occurred when I was in a ninth-grade classroom. The only difference: in the fourth grade I was a student, and in ninth grade I'm the teacher...
...juggle as best I can and make sure I don't drop any of the glass balls." Although she puts in up to 30 hours a week running Reese Li Baby, Li still has time to volunteer at school, chaperone field trips and gossip with other moms at the playground. "I've learned that I can't be superwoman, so we eat more take-out dinners and the laundry piles up." But laundry, she points out, "is not a glass ball." --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas