Word: kiddingly
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...rejecting that intolerance, let's not kid ourselves that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a champion of women's rights. I have attended meetings where his Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies chose not to shake my hand simply because I'm a woman. I know that hardly any of the AKP deputies have wives who work; when one of them sought to file charges against her husband for allegedly beating her, she was quickly dissuaded. I have watched Erdogan's daughter (who studied in the U.S. because of the ban) come home, get married and disappear. There...
...engineer for SMIC, the large semiconductor company that has a plant not far away. This friend - I'll call him Yu Xiang - has a cousin he has visited who lives outside Los Angeles, and says that New Songjiang reminds him of the area. "Now I call my cousin and kid him: 'I'm living in the Valley too, but at about a tenth of the price...
...wonder some parents want a firm hand to restore order. (Though as a parent, I should note that having a kid gives you only an extra tax deduction, not an extra vote.) The government cannot regulate violence on TV, but some lawmakers are advocating that it do so. And it is an election year. Hillary Clinton and John McCain have both been active in media-decency issues, and Barack Obama cited his bona fides as a concerned parent at a recent debate...
Harming a plate before a child hits puberty can affect the way the bones grow. "I saw one kid who was asked to do multiple plyometric jumps through the pain, and he pulled a growth plate off his knee," says Dr. Jordan Metzl, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine's youth sports committee. "Another kid tore a piece of plate off his hip from using too high weights while lunging and squatting...
...fairness to the grownups, the kids themselves need to relax too. "I'm a kid who stays focused and works hard," says Connor Humphrey, an earnest 14-year-old football and lacrosse player in New Canaan, Conn. "I have goals for the future. I want to play lacrosse at Duke." That dream is commendable, but while pushing young bodies to the limit may mean more time in the game, it can just as easily mean a lifetime on the bench...