Eleven percent of families with children have one or more parents with a disability.
Pica is an eating disorder in which people compulsively eat non-food items such as clay, talcum powder, charcoal, and cigarette ash. Eating dirt, also known as geophagia, is described by many as an irresistible craving.
The Austin American-Statesman‘s e-mail system automatically trashes any e-mail that contains the word “joke” in the subject field.
One of the challenges of writing warning signs for nuclear waste is choosing a language. Consider how English has changed in the last few hundred years and that the half-life of some waste is thousands of years.
Jimi Hendrix’s first musical instrument was a ukulele.
This article appears in June 16 • 2000.