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Four days later, the tragic Crown Heights affair escalated tensions between Blacks and Jews in New York and around the country. By now, the facts are well known: A Hasidic Jew killed a seven-year-old Black child in a traffic accident. Black rioters then killed a 29-year-old Hasidic Jew in retribution. The pogram deepened the hostility between the two groups, as Black crowds yelled that Hitler hadn't finished...
Asked by her seven-year-old grandson whether Grandma was going to have a baby, Arlette replied, "Christa and Kevin's babies are going to use Grandma's uterus until they're old enough to be born." That made perfect sense to him. "Children are very accepting," observes Arlette. "It's adults who cloud the matter. Maybe it's not quite the same old birds and bees. Maybe now there are birds and bees and butterflies...
Some enthusiasts want a bike to suit every occasion. While one is fine for long solo rides, another might be more appropriate for family outings. Even Michael Sinyard, a regular racer in his spare time, often spends the afternoon on a Specialized Deja Two tandem with his seven-year-old daughter. Says he: "She loves it. She says, 'Dad! This is a great bike! My legs never get tired!' " Other parents tow their youngsters in the $300 Cannondale Bugger, a polyethylene shell that allows the whimsical child to sit facing backward, watching the landscape spin away...
...hurdles change often: as competition for advertising spins out of control, the mainstream press is increasingly willing to feed lower on the news chain. This spring NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, slumming as host of a prime-time show called Expose, dusted off a seven-year-old story alleging that Virginia Senator Charles Robb had spent an evening at a hotel with a former beauty queen and attended parties where drugs were used. Once it knew that Brokaw was going with the story, the Washington Post, which had decided against running it before, took the clothespin off its nose...
...once sat next to seven-year-old boy who insisted on playing me in checkers for four consecutive hours. After throwing game after game to keep him happy, I heard him tell his dad that he had been sitting next to an "idiot." When I exacted my revenge with a decisive victory, he began to cry, and told his father I had cheated. Plus: I get free cookies and soda. Minus: Child-abuse laws are applicable on trains...