Word: restlessly
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...ALICE MUNRO A young woman on a train is approached by a nervous stranger. She blows him off. Not long after, his body is found on the tracks. Life is made up of such miniature tragedies, and so are Munro's powerful and perfect short stories, which focus on restless women who know more about what they're running from than where they're going...
...night, Caroline came down with a stomach flu and was throwing up all night," Green recalls. "I put her on a mattress on the living-room floor, where I could take care of her," but Caroline, used to a crib, kept rolling off and waking up. Meanwhile, Jonah was restless on a cot and kept his dad from sleeping. So much for settling down for a long winter...
...ages for travel, the holiday calendar doesn't wait for Baby's developmental pattern to reach its most travel-worthy state. In general, babies are most portable either before they crawl--under 9 months--or after they are established walkers. "Between 9 months and 2 years, babies are more restless and more thrown off by a change in schedule or space," says Maureen O'Brien, a developmental psychologist. For younger babies, the challenge is maintaining their schedule. Mentally scroll through your routine and remember to bring any item intimately involved with getting your child to eat, sleep or settle down...
...vice president of Venezuela's mining chamber: "He knows foreign investment is the only way Venezuela can boost its production and increase its reserves." While Chávez's September speech may have scared the mother lode out of mining execs, many believe it was meant more to appease the restless miners than to presage the ouster of the foreigners...
...says. For Rousseau and many other obsessively researched historical figures, new facts are unlikely ever to come to light; but this doesn’t deter Damrosch. The best biographies, he says, are “reinterpretations.”So is “Jean-Jacuqes Rousseau: Restless Genius” a groundbreaking, must-read reinterpretation? If anything it reinterprets Rousseau’s character, though perhaps “anti-interpretation” describes the biography more accurately. Damrosch’s method is to lay out, to demonstrate. The authorial voice vanishes in the elegant telling...