As long as we don't fall over ourselves to congratulate our adolescent every time she wipes her feet on the mat, a well-placed and consistent thank you, a compliment, or a sign of appreciation can go a long way.

Possibly it was a tune of West African origin or, equally likely, a piece of mock-Ethiopian minstrelry composed by a white American.

[…] I stared down into the chasm of this baby’s mouth, where the little pink knobble at the back of his throat was wiggling with the wind of his howl.

Quoting intelligence reports, the source said Wang Wei-ching was chief of Kwangchow City’s telecommunications bureau when he was arrested last February for smuggling electronic appliances and watches....The source said Teng Hsiao-ping, when he visited Kwangchow early this year, ordered the arrest of the younger Wang to enforce the new purification campaign.