Murphy's Law strikes again:  a newspaper left in the back seat of the car where a child can find it will be open to the one page the child shouldn't see.

Case in point:  last week I took my husband's car to basketball practice to pick up Mr. Third Grader and his friend, a teammate who lives down the street.  As the boys got into the car, they found a two-week-old copy of The Wall Street Journal back there.  They started tussling over the paper.

"Cool, a newspaper!"

"There's no sports section in there, guys," I told them, figuring there couldn't possibly be anything in The Wall Street Journal that would interest two eight-year-olds.

I was wrong.

"Yes, there is," they told me.  Then they read the headline:  "First Baseman Aubrey Huff Wears Glitter-Flecked Underwear for Luck."  Much giggling ensued.  I'm sure the story was all over the school bus the next morning, because this is the kind of thing third-graders can't learn from reading the sports section of the regular newspaper.

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