Word: toothbrushing
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...unusually personal statement in the Rose Garden surprised even her closest friends, as Ruth the shy judge revealed the beaming grandmother, holding up an 8X10 picture of Clara being led in the toothbrush song during a nursery school visit by Hillary Rodham Clinton, whom Ginsburg did not know. Ginsburg closed her remarks with a tribute to her mother, who died young -- "I pray that I may be all that she would have been had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve, and daughters are cherished as much as sons...
...AGENDA FOR ASTRONAUTS ABOARD THE SPACE shuttle Endeavour includes launching a communications satellite, walking in space, chatting with students about weightlessness, ringing a tiny replica of the Liberty Bell to mark Clinton's Inauguration. Oh, and yes, they'll be trying out a new toothbrush holder (price: $200,000) and an improved space toilet that cost an astronomical $23 million...
Workers laying a new sewer line in a Cairo suburb uncover foundations of a 4,600-year-old working-class neighborhood; a subway project in Rome reveals a long-dead Pope's toothbrush; improvements in Red Square during the twilight of the Soviet empire unearth wooden homes built before Moscow had its first prince in the 13th century. In the next millennium, construction workers in Cairo, Rome and Moscow will no doubt be puzzling over traces of current cultures. As the triumphant remake the world's cities, the shards of the vanquished are literally trodden into the ground...
WHERE DOES IT GO? by Margaret Miller (Greenwillow; $14). Where does Justin put his toothbrush? Through the apple? On the teddy bear? No, he puts it in his mouth! More instructions follow, about the placement of books, bicycles, pillows and dolls. The text tries a little too hard to be nonsexist, but the photographs are pleasing and the lessons are painless...
...from the Grammys to the Oscars. The Oscars were thrilling for the kid who once sat glued to the black-and-white set with the family, shrieking, "There's Loretta Young! Look, over there, Alan Ladd's getting out of that limo!" His mother Helen remembers Billy grasping his toothbrush like a mike, "thanking all the little people who made this possible." In the morning, she would put notes under the cereal bowl -- "Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird" -- for the Oscars awarded after he fell asleep...