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...reluctant to discuss his stern upbringing in the Church of the Nazarene or the fact that his family lived in 16 homes over 18 years. This time he compared his childhood with the uncomplicated lives of the kids on TV's Happy Days. Yet he stumbled when a fourth-grader asked him if he would ever return to live in Ottawa. "Yes," Hart replied. But after a moment he hedged, "Not totally." He paused, then added, "I wouldn't rule...
Like a fifth-grader caught without his homework, Moonlighting has plenty of excuses. In the midst of filming the multi-parter, Willis broke his collarbone on a Sun Valley ski slope and was absent three days. Another two weeks' worth of shooting was lost while Shepherd, who is expecting twins in October, was fighting off morning sickness. Those misfortunes only complicated the show's chronic inability to stay on schedule. Most network series turn out at least 22 new episodes a season; Moonlighting will be lucky to scrape together 17. Its scripts are often finished just a few hours before...
...Conservative Club and the local lefties are playing games with each other again, and the majority is saying "play nicely now children." Every sixth grader knows that intelligent free speech is important. We only wish the appearance of South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown was an example of it. Instead it is the latest round in the ongoing left-right squabble. The Conservative Club brings in a speaker to mouth the same old lines. The liberals protest with the same old slogans...
...cards, the Fitnessgram is sent home. What to do then is left up to the parents and child. Many take the results seriously. Dissatisfied with her score, Laura Miller, 12, started jogging with her mother more frequently. "I wanted to train for the next Fitnessgram," says Laura, a seventh-grader at Jefferson Middle School in Olympia, Wash...
...skits and rhymes to handle such topics as choosing "heart- healthy" foods and resisting the bad habits of peers. In addition, youngsters get individual "health passports" on which they can record annual figures for height, weight, blood pressure and blood cholesterol. A surprisingly high cholesterol reading for Houston Sixth-Grader David Hawkins triggered a whole new way of eating for his family. Meals once heavy with beef and fried foods are now dominated by pasta and vegetables. "It's pretty gross," says David, 12, "but I guess if I don't follow it, I'll be sorry when...