Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents took Erin to a psychiatrist just before her fifth birthday. "He saw us for 45 minutes," Charlene says. "He read the teacher's report. He saw Erin for 15 minutes. He said, 'Your daughter is ADHD, and here's a prescription for Ritalin.' I sobbed." Charlene had a lot of friends who did not believe in ADHD and thought maybe she and Tim were just being hard on Erin. "I thought, 'Maybe there is something else we can do,'" Charlene says. "I knew that medicine can mask things. So I tore up the prescription." Tim thought that...
...just the answer but also a piece of the thing itself: a tiny meteorite fragment, a tenth of an inch across, that was extracted from a 65-million-year-old geological layer under more than 50 yds. of sediment at the bottom of the Northern Pacific. In a report in the current issue of Nature, Kyte notes that the little chunk contains concentrations of metals (such as iridium and nickel) and mineral textures that clearly show that it is extraterrestrial and that it probably was once part of a much larger asteroid...
...long-ago adoption of a Romanian orphan, he shifts responsibility to them, saying, "I don't go with my FBI agents on every single interview." He dodges when asked whether he wanted to wire Monica to get the goods on Clinton, even when reminded of it by an FBI report and Lewinsky's sworn testimony...
...nearly so. Some 80 million years after that late Cretaceous calamity--give or take 10 million years--its telltale remains have poignantly resurfaced. At a news conference in New York City last week, as well as in a report in Nature, scientists revealed that they had stumbled upon the site of the doomed dinosaur rookery during an expedition to remote badlands in central Argentina last November. Scattered over a square mile of parched Patagonian soil, they found the whole or shattered remains of thousands of grapefruit-size, fossilized dinosaur eggs--so many, in fact, that they couldn't avoid crushing...
Teachers and counselors report that kids who are taught to hunt responsibly are generally among the more mature and better-mannered--and saner--adolescents in the wilds of modern American culture. Cesario Guerrero, an agricultural-science teacher, leads kids from tough neighborhoods in inner-city Houston on hunting trips for deer and wild hogs and observes that these students often "become part of a different crowd" when they return. "It gives them a pride...