Word: third
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...largest concern is where they are watching television. Two-thirds of all kids eight and older have a television in their bedroom, says the Kaiser report. And a third of kids ages two to seven have TVs in their room. That's way too many kids spending way too much time alone in their bedroom with only Kermit the Frog and the offspring of Aaron Spelling to keep them company. So the first thing parents should do is take the TV out of a kid's room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they...
DEFROCKED. THE REV. JIMMY CREECH, 55, United Methodist pastor who officiated at the union of lesbian and gay couples; in Grand Island, Neb. Creech said the verdict would "widen the wound of the soul" of the nation's third largest Christian church...
During the last decade of his life, Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) began a systematic survey of the Massachusetts vegetation surrounding Concord, where he lived in the third-floor attic of his parents' house. His mission, as he told his journal, was "to find God in nature," the Transcendental imperative he absorbed from his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, the 26 months Thoreau had spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations...
...rape in South Africa [WORLD, Nov. 1]. I applaud the amazing contributions made by rape survivor Charlene Smith in publicizing her experience in an effort to stop the plague that is infecting my country. Being a young female in South Africa is increasingly terrifying. As many as a third of us will endure one of life's most horrifying experiences, sexual assault. Almost every male is a threat to our well-being. FRANCES SUTHERLAND Pretoria, South Africa...
...celebrate Thanksgiving, TIME, for the third consecutive year, has asked the nation's most powerful citizens to trace their hands and draw turkeys, as they did in kindergarten. And once again, a surprising number complied...