Word: sandboxes
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...China and the United States, the largest, most petulant children in this mess of a summit sandbox? Paradoxical practices have plagued their policies as well. China has publicly complained about the “lack of transparency” on the part of Denmark, the summit’s host nation, in its composition of the talks. Yet China has raised obstructive technical objections to specific lines of text throughout the week—eerily similar to the personal account of China’s actions at last year’s climate talks in Paris, shared with...
...have plenty of friends who naively announce their intentions to steer clear of Disney princesses and all their insidious influence. Of course, their daughters are still toddlers who have yet to traipse off to preschool and encounter pop culture, sandbox-style. I was once one of those mothers and still strive to be. I've never bought my girls a Cinderella or Ariel costume, and our DVD collection boasts no Disney titles, yet my daughter informed me last week, apropos of nothing, that Sleeping Beauty is to be referred to as Sleeping Beauty only when she's sleeping. Awake...
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According to Professor David A. Edwards, faculty director of the Lab, the space is intended to be a “sandbox sort of play zone,” where creative people can be “encouraged to dream like they’re encouraged to analyze and not [be] punished by breaking a mold that is defined by some concentration...
Children playing in the sandbox aren't the only ones likely to be misdiagnosed with an infestation—it happens "not infrequently" to teenagers and college students...