Word: three-year-old
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...prison system." The two women took vocational classes and made Irish friends. But after four years in bureaucratic limbo, their new lives evaporated in March, when they were deported with their 5-year-old sons. The women got so little warning that their four other children were left behind, as immigration officers escorted the women to Dublin Airport before the older ones walked home from school. As the mothers scrounged to bribe police officers and pay hospital bills back in Nigeria - their 5-year-olds had never received vaccinations against African diseases - the older children went into hiding. "We expected...
...composer whose work is rarely soothing and more often than not unsettling, it's fascinating to watch Liza Lim attempt to calm her crying three-year-old son Raphael. "Do you want me to wheel you out?" she asks him at the headquarters of the Sydney Symphony, where Lim is composer in residence. She moves his stroller around the conference table, but still he whimpers. "Would you like some water?" Instead, Raphael calls out for his father, Daryl Buckley, who is artistic director of the new-music elision Ensemble, based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. "You want...
...Microgeneration forces architects and builders to think green from the start. Homes in the three-year-old BedZED development, for instance, are south facing and fronted by conservatories to capture natural heat and light. There's no need for central heating because thick brick walls are heavily insulated, and windows are double- and triple-glazed, helping to retain the heat produced by domestic activities such as cooking. As a result, fuel bills can be as little as 10% of those for traditional houses of similar size. Lighting is low energy, too, and water-saving washing machines and low-flush toilets...
...toddler, to discover a girl wearing tiny golden earrings. The doctor removed mud from the child's eyes and mouth, and was rewarded with a cry of "Mami." The youngster, named Sandra, was one of only five small children rescued Friday from the mud of Armero. A three-year-old boy was found cradled by both his dead parents on a partly submerged mattress under a mango tree...
That accusation is heard frequently in Mexico City these days, and not only from earthquake victims. The complaints seem symptomatic of a growing crisis of confidence that is haunting the three-year-old government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Bureaucratic sclerosis and political insensitivity have laid his administration open to charges that it is not doing enough to overcome the country's worst urban disaster in decades. In the past two months, an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion has left the country, mostly for the U.S., and the value of Mexico's peso has dropped from...