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...gift if you were expecting a Barbie. On the first page, a table of contents tells colorists on what page they will find the Cow Vetch. Bonus: an Index of Scientific Names teaches the novice that the Cow Vetch is also called "Vicia cracca." Of course, every cool five-year-old already knows this...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Coloring Books of the Boring Elite | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...sadly, Mythical Beasts is just another sneaky coloring book whose purpose is to get kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are made to feel like losers if they don't remember that the Hippogriff was, of course, the animal that Ruggiero rode in Ariosto's epic, "Orlando Furioso...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Coloring Books of the Boring Elite | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...five-year-old association with chapters in 15 local colleges, selected Christopher H. White '94 as president and Glen M. Bianchi '94 as secretary during a meeting in Boylston Hall Saturday...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, | Title: College Dems Elect Leaders | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...lost his job at Citicorp four months ago, Harvey Lewis had been dutifully climbing the corporate ladder for 25 years. He had joined the bank at 18 as a backroom clerk and worked his way up to assistant vice president, picking up his M.B.A. along the way. But his dream of reaching the top ranks ^ was dashed when Citicorp closed his New Jersey mortgage-banking office. "They even offered me a gold watch," says the father of five-year-old twins. "But I wasn't ready to retire." Instead he used part of his $65,000 severance to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Starting Over | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...that tragic Sunday morning, Joy had been in the backyard fixing the hair of five-year-old Montez. The twins, Earnestine and Adia, were running around in their bathing suits. Young John, at two the baby of the family, was riding the swing. His dad, a deacon at the Allen Temple Baptist Church, had decided to miss morning services and worship in the afternoon. Reading the newspaper in bed, John focused on one story in particular: an account of a brush fire that had erupted the day before in the nearby hills and that fire officials said had been extinguished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath: How Do You Rebuild a Dream? | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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