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That occurs at the very time when a baby's galloping growth rate is beginning to taper. A child typically triples its birth weight during the first 12 months, but babies don't normally approach the quadruple mark until their second birthday. With growth slowing, toddlers need fewer calories per kilogram than infants, but not many parents seem to know that. In fact, because toddlers tend to be pickier than infants and are less interested in sitting still for a meal, parents often grow concerned that their kids aren't eating enough. "It becomes a vicious cycle where the parent...
...step. In July she is covering the first direct Eurostar service of the summer from London to Avignon for the Financial Times. Then off on a summer cruise-ship lecture tour. In October she will be fêted at the New York Public Library for her 80th birthday. Yet there will be no more books, save one. "I've been very ill," she says. "I had two brain surgeries earlier this year, so I'm sort of taking the year off. I'm much better now, thanks. I can stand, walk, even drive a car. I have this Honda...
...baroness's stable. Later, as an instructor of media studies at Queens College in New York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with her mother. So she surprised her mom Carol Hornbuckle with a trip to Budapest as a 70th-birthday present. Diane found them a pretty four-star hotel, the K+K Opera in Budapest, introduced her mother to her Hungarian friends and took her to places of historic interest like Esztergom Cathedral on the Danube and the Museum of Ethnography. At the museum, Carol spent hours entranced...
...years Chicagoan Michael O'Shea and his wife Frances had talked about traveling to Australia and New Zealand after their seven daughters grew up. When his wife died in October 1997, Michael resigned himself to never going. Then for Michael's 70th birthday, his daughters Anne, 36, a commercial pilot, and Bernadette, 37, a fund raiser, offered to take him on a trip Down Under funded by all the sisters. "My father never asked anything for himself," Bernadette says. "He was giddy for the next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel...
...years old every day. To mark our birthday, we will print some pictures and text from back issues of the magazine every month from now through November. The first selection?touching on everything from refugees in Shanghai to the first sub-four-minute mile in Oxford?is in this issue. Later in the year, we will publish two special editions to further celebrate our anniversary. We hope you enjoy them both?and our monthly trips through our back numbers...