Word: fun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth in her cabin and steps outside to liberate it, a bird darts down and grabs a free meal...
...Concentrations by and large are proud of their tutorial programs," Pedersen says. "They see them as a way to attract good and interested students to the department. And they're also fun to teach...
Grant Loud, "Jeopardy!" contestant coordinator, said the four coordinators involved in contestant selection were looking for people that seemed relaxed and looked like they were having fun...
...nationwide who watch TV less than six hours a week, Barbara Brock, a recreation-management professor at Eastern Washington University, concluded that most want to rediscover a gem called time. The Gurney family in Rhinebeck, N.Y., for instance, prefers woodland treks, charades and stories by candlelight. "It's really fun," says Franklin, 11, "because you're not glued...
...Fun isn't the only potential fringe benefit, however, since TV gobbles up 40% of Americans' free time. Brock's TV-free families seem to have found antidotes to some of the nation's social ills. Inactivity? More than 80% of nearly 500 children in the survey play sports. No interest in reading? Four-fifths of TV-free children have above-average reading skills; 41% read an hour or more a day. Fractured family time? Nine of 10 families eat dinner together at least four times a week. Overall they average nearly an hour a day of meaningful conversation...