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...first, kids appear to adapt well to the disparity and often learn to game the system, flipping blatant favoritism back to their shared advantage. "They'll say to one another, 'Why don't you ask Mom if we can go to the mall because she never says no to you,'" says Conger. But at a deeper level, second-tier children may pay a price. "They tend to be sadder and have more self-esteem questions," Conger says. "They feel like they're not as worthy, and they're trying to figure...
...Where Bush's agenda most resembles TR's is in its limitless ambition - its incessant busy-ness, its desperate need to appear to be addressing everything all at once. Even as he seeks the "end of tyranny in our world," Bush would also remake the government's entitlement system, rewrite the nation's tax code, reform its legal system, revolutionize worker training and health care; he would amend the constitution to define marriage and insert Washington into the nation's local schools as never before. In May, the administration celebrated one of its most trivial, and typical, programs - the Department...
...Warner Bros, with additional movies from Paramount, with Sony, Lionsgate, Fox and Disney leading the Blu-ray lineup. Paramount and Warner have pledged to make Blu-ray discs, too, but I'll wager that the two studios' respective aces, the Star Trek box set and The Matrix Trilogy, appear in HD DVD first. Once again, tables may turn when the $600 Blu-ray-equipped PlayStation 3 launches this November, but for the moment, Samsung's Blu-ray player costs twice as much as Toshiba's HD DVD player, and just isn't twice as good...
...interacts only with users she already knows offline and feels secure because, as she explained to her parents, the site lets her accept or deny an invitation to be someone's friend--and thus control who accesses the full content of her profile. Some kids, however, eager to appear popular (MySpace tallies the number of friends each user has), post bulletins asking everyone to befriend them, a practice, Kranz says, that is known as "whoring yourself." With nearly 85 million MySpace users and free accounts being opened at the blistering pace of more than...
...release, with Egyptian representatives apparently playing a key role. Several senior officials of the Hamas government have publicly called for Shalit to be released unharmed. The militants holding the young soldier have said they are tending to his wounds and that he's being treated well, but they appear to be following the in tradition of Hezbollah in Lebanon by demanding extensive prisoner releases as the ransom for a captive Israeli...