Word: turned
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Seven-year-olds for the most part have little or no understanding of other higher-order concepts necessary to turn right and wrong into Right and Wrong--most significantly, death and remorse. "They know people die, but they don't know what it means," says Carl Bell, a University of Illinois psychiatry professor who has worked with troubled urban kids for two decades. "I've talked to seven-year-old kids who think when you're dead, you're just hanging out somewhere." And Paul Mones, a Portland, Ore., lawyer and a leading expert on young murderers, says, "Kids...
...knew what to do about it. Even in his beach-bum days, Buffett had been an effective businessman, handling his own bookings, keeping the club owners passably honest, locking himself in his motel room to go over the accounting ledgers. So now he spent freely to turn his concerts into spectacles, building elaborate stage sets with erupting volcanoes and such. He also tightened up the music and hired the Trinidadian steel-drum virtuoso Robert Greenidge. Eventually he brought in clowns on stilts and a storyteller for the children and sent bands into the parking lot to play for the fans...
Four hours into our road trip, a few miles from a ferry that would free us from our car, a giant fly landed in the ointment. The turn-by-turn directions I had downloaded for free from Big Book had been, so far, flawless. But now the printout was advising that I detour to the south; all the traffic, however, was proceeding due east. What to do? Heed the computer's advice, or follow the herd? Stupidly, I hadn't packed an atlas or road map. "Ella pinched me!" someone shrieked in steerage. Tick-tick-tick. "Follow the traffic," hissed...
Suddenly the market did a U-turn--no, a V-turn--and rocketed 100 points. I was up $70,000 on AOL before I got confirmation that I had bought it. Dell moved 6 in less time than it takes to order a computer on the Web. Yes, you could make money if you were willing to buy something you knew and loved...
...Starr's few smart soundbites has been to insist that his investigation -- from Whitewater to Monica -- has been about conspiracy, buying silence, and fighting the investigation itself at every turn. And he's not without leads. "Clinton's problems are, with the possible retrieval of gifts, whether he told Monica to lie" and whether he told Betty Currie to lie, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "But he may have been able to skirt the line between suggesting something be kept quiet and actually suborning perjury...