Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resisting the temptation to turn their child into an early overachiever, a surprising number of parents are consciously delaying their youngster's entrance to kindergarten even when age eligible. This is known, quaintly, as redshirting, after the common university practice of keeping athletes out of games to allow them an extra year of playing eligibility. To some teachers, redshirting children is necessary because all too many kindergartens are more concerned with academics than with the emotional and physical development of youngsters. To others, the practice is not much better than coddling...
This much acclaimed drama focuses on a middle-class family in which one of the three children, Corky, 18, is suffering from Down syndrome. The show is a breakthrough because it stars a youngster, Chris Burke, who has the disorder. Though he has a relatively mild case of retardation, Burke's very presence on screen is eloquent proof that such children can be capable, functioning members of society...
...home. Bush's program will propose shifting funds to expanded drug-education and -treatment programs, and stiffer penalties for casual users. Such an emphasis on curtailing the U.S. appetite for cocaine and other drugs is fine by the Colombians. As President Barco told TIME, "Every time a North American youngster pays for his vice in the streets of New York, Miami or Chicago, he becomes a link in the chain of crime, terror and violence which has caused us so much damage and pain. The best help the U.S. could give for the tranquillity and the defense of human rights...
...matter how safe the seat, it cannot help a youngster sitting on an adult's lap. "A small child sitting unrestrained on a plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...
...Kirov paid rich tribute to the choreographer who danced on its stage as a youngster. The set suggests the theater itself, its balconies aglow in mellow light. The marvelous, downy tutus use the colors of the Kirov curtain. When danced by Asylmuratova, one of the handful of great ballerinas today, a magical fusion of dance tradition and Balanchine's revolution occurs. She may lack the technical wizardry of City Ballet's Kyra Nichols or Merrill Ashley, but she is the most musical of dancers, delightedly bathing in the score, modestly using her bewitching personal beauty to enhance the glamour...