Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Britty starts counting on her fingers. Abby helpfully lays down her hand on the table. They count fingers and toes with all the accuracy their six-year-old minds can muster. "Nineteen," they conclude. Then the clearly ancient guest asks, "Guess how old I am." Britty can't resist the chance to tease: "900,000!" she shrieks. The sisters dissolve into giggles. They reach up and slap a celebratory high five...
CLAUDIA WALLIS certainly has plenty to do. The veteran TIME science writer is the mother of three and the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS, which reaches nearly 800,000 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders each week. But she could not resist the opportunity to tell the remarkable story this week of Abigail and Brittany Hensel. "I had read LIFE magazine's cover story about the conjoined twins," she says, "and was moved to tears." Wallis teamed up with reporter Jen Doman, who befriended the Hensels last fall and secured exclusive rights to their story for Life. Says Wallis...
...stepson, she divided her time between Taiwan and the U.S. Now settled in New York City, she leads a quiet life of Methodist prayer, visiting old friends and avoiding politics. Still, appearing last week at a controversial exhibition of treasures her husband took from the mainland, she couldn't resist a veiled reference to the current Taiwan crisis. Says Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello: "She spoke with majesty of the enduring and unifying quality of art in times of political turmoil...
...think that you have to give this team a chance to get its own identity," she said. "I want to resist putting any sort of labels or expectations on them...
...will eventually have to play a key role in preserving the peace agreement. "Assad's refusal to attend the conference is part of a consistent strategy to use militant surrogates as part of his playing hand in negotiations with Israel," MacLeod says. "This doesn't mean that he will resist efforts to crack down on terrorists, or that he is supporting them more. He is just using this as a political card...