Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brrrrring! The alarm goes off, and another day crammed with classes, sports, homework, appointments and sometimes jobs begins. Benjamin Franklin, no squanderer of time, would be impressed by the schedules kept by today's children. But the hectic pace takes its toll. With their kids' lives carved up into blocks of time for soccer, scouts and homework, what should parents do--and not do--to help them manage their time...
...students also say years of heavy use and neglect have taken their toll on the College's handful of public typewriters, leading some to purchase their own typewriters and forcing the rest to make...
...mill printer. Helpful as he was, the experience bodes poorly for a product geared toward the average, hapless home consumer. While my wireless network finally appears to work, I'd recommend that you don't buy HomeFree until it comes out with a far better instruction manual--and a toll-free help line...
Inevitably, much of the heavy baggage that readers will schlep across the bridge into the 21st century will be the large-format, illustrated histories of the 20th. The bridge is not yet ready for traffic, but two such volumes are now crowding the toll gates. One is The Century (Doubleday; 606 pages; $60) by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster; the other, The American Century (Knopf; 710 pages; $50) by Harold Evans. The books are distinctly different, but each has much to recommend it, not least because Jennings, a Canadian national, and British-born Evans, now a U.S. citizen, view their...
...their teens, face a sometimes daily barrage of harassment, intimidation and threats of physical harm. The suicide rate for gay and lesbian youth is three times the norm, making the quality of their young lives sadly obvious. Every year we receive tens of thousands of calls on our toll-free telephone hotline (1-888-THE-GLNH) from people who need information, peer counseling or referrals. What happened to Shepard could happen to any of us. And someday it might. BRAD BECKER, Executive Director Gay and Lesbian National Hotline San Francisco...