Word: five-year-old
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...TIME has learned that Australian authorities had plenty of warning that MSS was a suspect agency and could have ended adoptions from it well before Zabeen's was processed. Five years earlier, a Western Australian family had their MSS adoption of a five-year-old girl canceled after an Indian court found the orphanage was lying when it said she had been abandoned. In reality, she'd been claimed by her uncle. Orphanage director Ravindranath told authorities the child was hallucinating when she insisted she had a family...
When an Ohio five-year-old was found to have committed arson last week, his mother blamed Beavis and Butt-head, not the first product of pop culture to be accused of inspiring specific acts of violence...
...describe last week, the most difficult of their young lives: it sucked. MTV's animated teenage miscreants had an unfortunate run-in with real life. An Ohio mother charged that episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head, in which they gleefully plan pranks with fire, incited her five-year-old son to set their mobile home ablaze, killing his two-year-old sister. MTV responded to the tragedy with careful public statements, vowing to remove all references to fire from future shows and reiterating that the characters' antics are ''obviously unacceptable and not to be emulated in real life.'' Starting Tuesday...
...collections manager at London's Natural History Museum, Max Barclay has traveled the world in search of rare and previously undiscovered insects. So when his five-year-old son took a break from a picnic lunch last year in the Museum's garden and returned with an insect in hand, Barclay could not have guessed that his question - "Daddy, what's this"? - would lead to a global detective hunt that has so far stumped Barclay and the world's other entomologists...
...told me how the torrent of water stole away her one-year-old daughter. With one child gone, all San San Khing could do was clasp her five-year-old son to her chest and hope. By the time the tidal surge triggered by cyclone Nargis receded on May 3, San San Khing was still holding her son, but his body was lifeless. At least, she says, she chanted prayers and gave him a proper burial...