Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patricia Szymczak was 36 years old when she decided to pursue a quest she had contemplated since childhood: finding her mother. Adopted in infancy, Szymczak, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, attacked the task as if on deadline. She knew the woman's name and hometown from a 1953 Illinois adoption decree, obtained when she turned 18 from her adoptive mother. Szymczak called the local post office, found a retired mailman and got him talking about the family -- her family. She contacted old neighbors, who led her to friends. Some had seen the woman, who now lived out of state...
...cost-effective in preparing disadvantaged students for school, but can now accommodate only about 1 in 5 of those eligible. As the summit closed, White House chief of staff John Sununu noted that "the Governors succeeded quite well in convincing the President of the value of preschool and early-childhood programs." Bush conceded "the need for more federal support for the prekindergarten education process...
Despite a trying childhood and the dual demands of art and political activism, Redgrave has been, by all accounts, a stable and nurturing parent. Says Joely: "Mother may have been a free spirit before we came along, but we were terribly normal and conventional as a family. Domestically, she's nothing like the force she is in acting and politics. She is not a creature of comforts. She will always take the smallest room in the house...
...Chelsea Commission on Hispanic Affairsobjected to the initial lack of informationalmaterials printed in Spanish. The group alsocriticized the B.U. plan for not providing forbilingual education in the early childhood years.Approximately 52 percent of Chelsea's 3400students are Hispanic...
...central romance, like the political backdrop, is a rescue fantasy. Soldier Chris (Simon Bowman) meets Kim (Lea Salonga), a village girl turned prostitute, and seeks to save her from that servitude, then from the wrath of a cousin to whom she was betrothed in childhood. At last, impulsively, he vows to save her from the coming chaos. His heart is good, but his head is clouded: he has no thought for the practical realities of her future in an alien land, only for the sweet moment of his own chivalry. Even that fails. In this revamping of Madama Butterfly, Chris...