Word: lateraled
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...Chronic rejection and unrequited love are the twin plinths of Schulz's early life and later work. Even when he had become the one cartoonist known and loved by people around the world, he could still say, with conviction, "My whole life has been one of rejection...
...help kids build stronger connections with others, you can pull the plug on TVs and computers. Your family will thank you later. They will have more time for face-to-face relationships, and they will get more sleep...
...Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles to town in the rain to deliver it, then treks back a week later to pick up the one and only reply. It's a quietly stirring proto-feminist sequence, but here it is transmuted into the banal musical yearnings of a romantic teenage girl: "Over mountains, over oceans/Heaven take me away/For I long for my liberty/For sweet liberty I pray...
When it folded, 35 employees remained; more than a month later, around 25 of them were still out of work. Lui was off climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and was incommunicado. The Giants were shaping up for another season. And TheMan.com stood as a sobering reminder of the perils of trying to get rich quick...
DIED. KENNETH BRINKHOUS, 92, University of North Carolina medical researcher who developed the first effective treatment for hemophilia; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Brinkhous' early research showed that some hemophiliacs could not produce a bloodclotting protein that was later dubbed Factor VIII. One of his seminal discoveries was a way to use blood plasma to aid in replacing the missing protein...