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...toddler's flawless German and English chatter in the park the other day and the mother shook her head. "No one's really impressed in this town unless the kid's at least trilingual," she said. One of the reputedly best schools in the city requires its three-year-old applicants to take a Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Since the school is also free, there's a lot of competition to get in. Only children who score in the 98th or 99th percentile are considered. We duly sent our son, Rover (not his real name; we're not that mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom at Work: When Exams Test Parents | 1/29/2002 | See Source »

...high-tech scooter: Sorry, folks, but unless you can use this device while carrying an armload of groceries and a squirming three-year-old, the Segway's just a guy toy. SANDIE SCARPA Fort Pierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 2001 | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...hard for mothers to wrestle the Christmas tree into the living room and answer their three-year-old when he asks for the hundredth time, Will Daddy be home soon? Getting out of bed can take an act of courage. One widow, a breast-cancer survivor, pretty much stopped eating after Sept. 11. She shot herself a couple of weeks ago. She lost her fight, but others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of The Year 2001: Rudy Giuliani | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...relative of a still missing person in the photo called to say he'd heard that Mike had miraculously saved people by leading them into the subcellar of the towers. Where were they now? The fan letters began piling up. A woman wrote from Australia that her three-year-old son Laughlin said his prayers each night to the photo: "You are the face [that] my son has identified as his hero." A man from Pensacola, Fla., wrote, "Your picture helped convey to the world how average Americans have always performed since our beginnings." Then he warned, "Your task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory In The Glare | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...hard for mothers to wrestle the Christmas tree into the living room and answer their three-year-old when he asks for the hundredth time, Will Daddy be home soon? Getting out of bed can take an act of courage. One widow, a breast-cancer survivor, pretty much stopped eating after Sept. 11. She shot herself a couple of weeks ago. She lost her fight, but others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year: Rudy Giuliani | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

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