Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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What was going on? Was the art field being censored from the Harvard campus? Was I being sheltered from the potential hardships of becoming an artist, and instead being steered to more lucrative careers? Why this push, or rather shove, towards banking and consulting...
...perfect example of the challenges the U.S. faces. It appears to have been well planned by a cell with international logistical support and sophisticated bombmaking expertise, according to U.S. officials working on the case. The cell-like structure, in which groups are run as tiny bubbles of terror instead of as part of a central hierarchy, makes intelligence work tricky. It also tends to make a group more divorced from reality, enabling it to nurture suicide bombers more easily. And it does wonders for security: cells are often composed of people who have known one another since childhood or fought...
...Jews from Poland"--struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over her refusal to use pesticides on her apple orchards, thereby inundating, he is convinced, his land with bugs...
...concerned about the hormonal changes your daughter is going through, you should know that you're in good company. If you're truly alarmed, you should consult your child's pediatrician, but the fact is, most early bloomers are perfectly healthy. Instead of medical attention, they need plenty of age-appropriate information and loving support. Happily, the trend toward earlier puberty has spawned a wealth of resources for 8-to-12-year-old girls and their parents. And because girls this age still tend to listen to their parents, you're just the person to prepare your daughter for what...
...girls," says Mavis Jukes, author of Growing Up: It's a Girl Thing. While blossoming third-graders need frank talk about how to handle unwelcome sexual attention, she says, they don't need explicit information on birth control and STDs or windy speeches about sperm and Fallopian tubes. So instead of preparing the Big Talk, it's best to start a series of casual conversations about your daughter's more immediate concerns, which may surprise you. According to Lynda Madaras, co-author of My Body, My Self for Girls and a puberty educator for 25 years, your daughter, like...