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...solace, you are not alone. There's a pandemic out there of softhearted parents. According to their confidants--from psychologists, financial planners, friends and relatives to radio talk-show hosts and hairdressers--more and more adult children are relying on their mothers and fathers long after completing their schooling. Some never stop doing...
...Look magazine with ads for shiny Buicks and Chryslers, ever since American G.I.s camped out in his childhood home in South Wales, providing chewing gum during the austere war years, the actor had dreamed of the U.S. The movies, he now knew, would be his ticket there; as an adult, as an actor, he had been influenced less by the titans of the British theater than by the naturalistic style of Marlon Brando and James Dean. Did he want to be in a film...
...Florida Times-Union, "Telling these people they can exercise their First Amendment rights somewhere other than on St. George is like telling Rosa Parks that she has to sit in the back of the bus." (Which is, coincidentally, also the argument of another Florida lawyer, this one representing adult dancers contesting Tampa's ordinance outlawing lap dancing...
...recent news reports of children at risk of cancer caused by computed tomography (CAT) scans, say experts, including the doctor who led one of the widely reported studies picked up by news organizations. Instead, they say, parents should concentrate on the issue at the center of the research: whether adult-appropriate levels of radiation are being given incorrectly to children...
...radiation damage and also because they will live long enough for even slow-growing cancers to take their toll. Perhaps the biggest risk factor, investigated by the second study, led by Dr. Lane Donnelly at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, is that too many CAT scanners are giving kids adult-size doses of X rays, often several times higher than necessary...