Word: whole
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...lifelong journalist, Grunwald--once editor-in-chief of Time Inc.--responded to the challenge with brisk attentiveness as much as apprehension. He read up on eye incisions that would make weaker men flinch, learned that James Thurber, after becoming blind, composed whole pages of prose in his head, and discovered that in ancient Egypt, medication for such problems might consist of urine, saliva, honey, the whites of eggs and "the milk of a woman who had borne only boys." Yet all the knowledge in the world could not erase the fact that the words and the paintings that had always...
...Mich., home into an attractive computer workspace to keep his three children--Emily, 15; Katie, 13; and Max, 10--out of harm's way, at least at home. Here are some of the essential guidelines he incorporated into his design to make it comfortable and ergonomically correct for the whole family...
...Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...
...accept may find they learn as much from living in a new country as they do in their classes. Attending a foreign school, suggests Todd Makurath, "teaches you to think not just in terms of your city or even country but to look at the world as a whole. It's the ultimate learning experience." Nefra Faltas agrees: "My whole world," she says, "seems so much larger...
Tragic stories like these fill the nation's newspapers. But do they have any relevance to stepfamilies as a whole? Yes, say Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, two Canadian psychology professors at McMaster University in Ontario. In their slender new book, The Truth About Cinderella: A Darwinian View of Parental Love (Yale University Press), the duo argue that having a stepparent is the most powerful risk factor for severe child abuse. In fact, they say, an American child living with one genetic parent and one stepparent is 100 times as likely to suffer fatal abuse as a child living with...