Word: stones
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...read down the list of ancestors, going back to the Revolutionary War, whose names are etched on our granite memorial, and trade snippets of their lives. There is my great-uncle who, in mid-life, ran off with the circus. His sainted wife's stone sits forlorn, wedged into the grass. We also celebrate the ordinariness of our ancestors--the soldiers, teachers, farmers and parents who spent purposeful lives in this little town. Our visit to the cemetery is where we work out our connection to these people, and to one another...
NATO may be bombing Belgrade back to the Stone Age and some Yugoslavian troops are feeling mutinous, but alliance predictions that President Milosevic is about to crack are probably premature. Belgrade's water reserves dropped to 8 percent Tuesday as NATO kept up its bombing campaign, and the city's residents are having to become accustomed to life without electricity. "Life in Serbian cities is getting very difficult," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "but people are not blaming Milosevic; they're blaming NATO. And even if they did blame Milosevic, there's not much they can do about...
...called Dr. Richard Stone, a pediatric ophthalmologist and one of the authors of the report. Practically the first words out of his mouth were, "We didn't prove anything." Then he went on to explain what he and his colleagues had found. They were following up a clue from the poultry industry, which has long known that baby chicks grow faster if you leave the lights on 24 hours a day. It turns out that their eyeballs grow longer as well--and long eyeballs is a pretty good description of what causes nearsightedness, also called myopia, in humans...
There's no point in feeling guilty if your children slept with the lights on as infants. "This is not something that anyone would have predicted," Stone says. Furthermore, as I and about 65 million other Americans can attest, being nearsighted is no big deal. True, we're at a slightly greater risk of developing glaucoma and detached retinas, but for most of us, nearsightedness is a minor inconvenience. Besides, I think glasses are kind of cool...
...never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several hits, including Cover of "Rolling Stone" and A Boy Named Sue, and nine plays, often working in conjunction with David Mamet. DIED. MEG GREENFIELD, 68, longtime editor of the Washington Post editorial page and Newsweek columnist; of cancer; in Washington (see EULOGY...