Word: shorting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...world needs to create a climate in which brutality is the exception rather than the rule. It means using other weapons--sanctions, for instance--to slow killing. And it means giving nations trapped in cycles of violence the tools they need to join the world community. It means, in short, being compassionate...
Ellen Galinsky, director of the Families and Work Institute in New York City, notes that "sometimes parents are so busy, it's easier to do something yourself than get a kid to do it." While this is understandable in the short term, Galinsky's research into teen attitudes toward work shows that kids who learn to do chores at home develop a strong work ethic for life. To get a kid to do a job he doesn't want to do, parents might be tempted to bribe him, but that can backfire. If your son can negotiate a price with...
Seaman starts out as an egg, which in short order spawns half a dozen fishy mini-seamen that babble at you in baby talk. To keep them alive you have to feed them, make sure they're warm and clean their tank daily (which is dark and dingy and looks like an early David Lynch movie...
...short career in real journalism came to an ugly end in L.A. last week around the fourth time I said, "I'm going to stay by the pool and have one more drink. I'll catch Al Gore's speech on television." Upon returning to New York, I found myself assigned the Survivor story. It ended up, though, that I kind of missed last Wednesday's big finale episode. And I also missed all the Wednesdays before that. I don't foresee keeping this reality-show beat very long either. In two weeks I figure I'll be back...
...Good tests should include a mix of essays, problem solving, short answers and even some multiple-choice questions. On math quizzes, students should be able to show how they arrived at their answer. The tests widely used today often rely too much on multiple-choice questions, which encourage guessing rather than thinking. Also, they often ignore the importance of knowledge. Today's history tests, for example, seldom expect the student to know any history - sometimes derided as "mere facts" - but only to be able to read charts, graphs and cartoons...