A teacher gave her class of
second graders a lesson on the magnet and what it does. The next day in a
written test, she included this question: “My full name has six letters.
The first one is M. I pick up things. What am I?” When the test papers
were turned in, the teacher was astonished to find that almost fifty percent of
the students answered the question with the word Mother.
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Submitted by the homiletics class of West Coast
Baptist College
A New York Times article on people who are sick of too many hours at work tells the story of Diane Knorr, a former dot—com executive: “The first time I got a call way after hours from a senior manager, I remember being really flattered and thinking, wow! I'm really getting up there now.” But gradually, her work and family life became a blur with hours that were hard to scale back. “If I leave at 5:00 and everyone else leaves at 6:30, I might look like the one who is not pulling his weight,” she said. In college, Mrs.
