Word: humanize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Democrats I talked to in the hall just don't know who Hillary is on her own. Yes, she's smart and would have made something of herself had she not married Bill Clinton. But without his sins, we wouldn't know she's human. Had she not become the Wronged Wife, does anyone think Hillary's Senate candidacy would be the least bit plausible in a state she'd only visited as a tourist before deciding to run there? She hated the sympathy but without it she would never have recovered enough from grabbing health-care reform for herself...
...studies tended to focus on poor families headed by teen mothers and kids of divorced parents. A Cornell University study of six- and seven-year-olds found that the mere fact of single parenthood does not mean that a child will have trouble academically. Henry Ricciuti, professor emeritus of human development and author of Single Parenthood and School Readiness, found that the mother's educational level and ability, rather than the absence of a father, have the most influence on a child's school readiness. Says he: "Single parenthood shouldn't be seen, in and of itself, as a damaging...
...they're also charged with being not so scary as to lose the stuffed-animal concession. Crystal and Goodman have the star power, but director Peter Docter says the real find is Mary Gibbs, 3, who happens to be the daughter of a Pixar employee and plays the lead human. "We initially brought her in just for scratch track, but she's so appealing that we kept bringing her in, giving her lots of candy and using whatever sounds she made." Is "candy" the new geek-slang for stock options...
...Cube is Steve Jobs' baby, and it certainly bears some of the Apple CEO's famous hubris. Jobs has described it as the perfect computer. Trouble is, it seems to be asking for a perfect human to operate it--no careless fingers, no need to make back-up Zip files, no changing minds about what you've plugged in. Instead of blaming it, though, I feel like apologizing to the digital brain for my flaws. After all, a computer that doesn't stoop to notice its imperfections is so very...
...Human mating wasn't always this complicated. When it came to attracting a woman's interest, it used to be easy for a guy: get a good job and use deodorant. To be considered promising-husband material, a man didn't even have to be good-looking; he just had to have a job--and use deodorant. That was my father's world. It disappeared some time between the Beatles and the Eagles and didn't return. What replaced it was a shopping list. A long one, always subject to revision and spur-of-the-moment additions and deletions...