Word: three-year-old
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...headed for war with his country. Nor did it seem to matter to the scores of other Iraqis we encountered: shopkeepers, hoteliers and even the government functionaries minding our comings and goings in Baghdad. The doctors tending the dying, the security people searching our baggage, the smiling three-year-old son of a government official -- all were strikingly cordial...
...Israeli count eight Scuds hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Ramallah area on Friday, but none released gas. They injured about a dozen people but killed no one. Four elderly Israelis and a three-year-old girl, however, either suffocated inside gas masks that had been improperly adjusted or died of heart attacks. Despite the fatalities, that amounted to a popgun attack in contrast to the kind of assault Israel and the U.S. had feared Saddam would mount...
These attacks--on civilian centers--caused more than 75 casualities, including at least three deaths from heart attacks and three deaths--including the death of a three-year-old--from asphyxiation. Israel also endured severe psychological trauma from the constant threat of chemical and biological attack and Hussein's desire to turn Tel Aviv into a "crematorium...
...three-year-old daughter is puzzled. Why, she wants to know, did Georgie Porgie kiss the girls and make them cry? "Because he's mean," I say, with a sinking feeling, for how can this be the right answer? As the rollicking little rhyme makes all too clear, young George is a clever rogue, all pudding and pie; the tearful girls are merely boring. Mother Goose in one hand and a leaky juice box in the other, I begin the sad, infuriating task shared by all modern mothers of daughters: to raise my child to be confident, adventurous and happy...
...only a dream. In 1983 Duggan's son Terry and his wife split up. First they deposited their nine-month-old daughter with his mother; within the year, they also dropped off their three-year-old son. The moves were only temporary -- at first. But the children's mother announced that she wanted to live her own life. In 1986 Terry died of a heart attack. With that, Duggan resolved to raise her grandchildren as if they were her own offspring. Now her travel plans have been supplanted by worries about how she will save enough money for her grandson...