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...RUBB for real? Zanker has felt the entrepreneurial tide turn against him before. He founded the Learning Annex, an adult-education business, but overexpansion and mounting lawsuits led him to sell his stake in a prepackaged bankruptcy in 1991. But competing massage outfits like Healing Hands of New York City are opening up shop, a good sign, says Zanker. "It's a huge market--you know how many backs there are in America? [263,814,032, to be exact]--and we can't possibly do them all." No, but he can sure...
...like to restructure the reform minyan a little.... Right now it's a small handful of both adults, grad students and undergraduates," he said. "I'd like to separate the reform adult and grad student minyan from the students...
Speculating that breast cancer may originate in the uterus, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have found that breast cancer risk as an adult is linked to infant birth weight...
...Fireflies, Fireflies, Light My Way By Jonathan London (Viking; $14.99). The title becomes part of a familiar chant ("Fireflies, fireflies, light my way/ Lead me to the place where the turtles play") when the story is read by an adult with a three-year-old chiming in. Linda Messier's glowing, Henri Rousseau-inspired illustrations help a child recognize the frogs, catfish, wood ducks and otters that inhabit a nighttime pond deep in the woods. Alligators turn up too, but this being a gentle tale, they pretty much keep to themselves...
...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...