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...chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

Sources: FDA; Families, Systems & Health; New England Journal of Medicine; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Rome (Microsoft; $24.95). The original game is more than a year old, but the "expansion pack" that was released a few months ago is shamefully addictive. It's a strategy game: you start out in the Stone Age, and if you manage your resources correctly--building armies, collecting wood, harvesting food--you can progress all the way to ancient Roman times. Just the right amount of strategy and terrific graphics of stuff blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favorite Things | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Washington's false teeth. (No, not wood but porcelain). Step into his military field tent. (Pretty comfy.) Read two of his billets-doux to his beloved Martha. (He's no Robert James Waller.) The objects are all featured in a charming exhibition of artifacts that have never before left Washington's Mount Vernon residence and that go a long way toward humanizing the dour and frosty image of our Founding Father. The show, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's death, will make its way around the country for all of 1999. What the collection also reveals is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibits: Treasures From Mount Vernon: George Washington Revealed New-York Historical Society | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...became a new child. He was able to focus, stay on task, didn't get as frustrated and angry and could enjoy going to school. I am so thankful for Ritalin. As long as my son needs it, I am going to see that he gets it. DANA WOOD Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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