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...baby's smile is also a kind of judgment on the care that its mother has been providing. "All these new data about how early the baby can distinguish things should upgrade motherhood, restore some prestige to it," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, 80, who taught a benign form of child rearing to a whole generation of Americans. "Motherhood has had an ever reduced amount of importance placed on it in our strange, overly intellectualized, overly scientific society...
...popularity has grown, Jackson has taken pains to court Democratic leaders, reassuring them that his power will be used for benign purposes. He has assured Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt that he will not inadvertently aid Reagan by mounting an independent general election bid. "He is very careful, very cautious, very moderate in tone," says an aide to Presidential Candidate Gary Hart. "He's trying to counter the notion that he's crazy." Many black party pros, however, worry that a black candidacy could backfire, siphoning off votes from a liberal such as Mondale and leaving Glenn...
Unlike almost everyone else in the world, NHK viewers seem to regard television as life enhancing and benign. The reason is that NHK actually lives up to most of its lofty goals. Launched in 1953, the TV network is self-governing and independent of all political authority. Its constitution grandly states that NHK must "contribute to the ideals of world peace and the welfare of mankind," while ensuring "the preservation of the outstanding examples of national culture." No small order...
...Others, however, pay payroll and Social Security taxes but do not risk trying to collect any services in return. "That's part of the deal," says Brandeis University American Studies Professor Lawrence Fuchs. "The illegal immigrants don't have any dissatisfaction with it. It's a benign Catch...
...lead the resistance against the Mussolini fascists. Idris' troops fought alongside the British Eighth Army in World War II, and in 1951, with British support, he was proclaimed monarch of the newly federated Libya. A strict Muslim who claimed descent from Muhammad, Idris ruled with benign autocracy, had no heirs (to his dismay) and became increasingly out of touch as the oil discoveries of the late 1950s brought some modern Western ways to his primitive land...