Word: playground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carol Stream, Ill., fourth-graders found a new use for their discarded sneakers: recycled-rubber playground surfaces. Meanwhile, their peers in Knoxville, Tenn., built 17 bird feeders and drew wildlife to an urban area formerly devoid of birds and squirrels...
...single or simple explanation for the emergence of high school shootings as a social phenomenon. And yet they are occurring too often to be dismissed as aberrations. Factors ranging from gun laws to a violent popular culture to the breakdown of community values have combined to turn the playground massacre into a symbol of a deep cultural crisis in late-20th-century America. The First Lady a few years ago used the aphorism "It takes a village to raise a child" as the title for a book. But America has yet to make that particular African proverb...
...Gore family has what kind of pets? If you picked horses or hamsters, you'd better try again. But don't worry, www.gore2000.com is sure even the littlest tyke on the playground will know the answer soon, thanks to their kids' town hall Web page...
...immigrating to the U.S. in 1933, Von Neumann was hired, along with Albert Einstein, by the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., a nonprofit research institute set up by the Bamberger family with profits from their department stores. The I.A.S. proved to be the perfect intellectual playground for Von Neumann's boundless genius. He threw himself with enthusiasm into one intractable problem after another, ranging from the abstract mathematics of quantum mechanics to the practical problems of weather prediction, hydrology and the patterns of artillery fire...
...more climate-dependent activities. According to Bush, the Quad field has also served as the stomping ground for toga-sporting pre-partiers performing Animal House-esque chants of "Toga!" before the debauchery commenced. Indeed, the Quad-bound can eagerly anticipate access to the biggest, most welcoming tract of playground on Harvard's campus...