Word: five-year-old
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...list of profound post-Sept. 11 changes that fizzled--bipartisanship, the death of irony--add the great sobering of cable news. Before the attacks, five-year-old Fox News was gaining on established rival CNN with an in-your-face, chatter-heavy lineup. CNN (like TIME, an AOL Time Warner property), which had long subscribed to the motto The News Is the Star, was shaking up its management and hiring star talent like anchor Paula Zahn--swiped from Fox amid much acrimony--to snazz up its often staid image. But the war made viewers want news, not shouting--old...
...While USA Freedom Corps is a new name, it actually serves as an umbrella organization for two of the nation's most venerable volunteer groups, Senior Corps and the Peace Corps, both established in the 1960s. It also covers the five-year-old AmeriCorps, started by President Clinton, and the brand new Citizen Corps...
...return home with war stories to tell and scars to compare. All families have their free spirits and their sentinels, and this year it will be intriguing to see who has swapped roles. Among the Wootens of Nashville, son Luke, a record producer, calls himself the Chicken Little of the family. He's the one who stockpiled water and bought the gas masks, though they turned out to be too big for his four- and five-year-old sons. When the clan assembles next week, he expects to discuss what they would do in the event of another attack...
...forth like a toy by the 4-m waves, Rokaya could only grab her daughters' hands and try to avoid being knocked over by the screaming stampede of mothers and children. Then came another, bigger jolt as the boat capsized, and Rokaya could only watch as first her five-year-old was pulled from her grasp, then her two-year-old, both disappearing into the mass of people struggling to get out of the cabin. The next thing she remembers, Rokaya was out in the open ocean, kicking desperately to stay afloat when her husband Raad suddenly appeared pushing...
Brazelton and Sparrow constantly remind us of the joy and hilarity of parenting. A scene describing five-year-old "Billy" trying to glue back his little sister's hair made me remember how often life with kids is like hanging around with the Three Stooges...