Word: bonding
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...There's been more storms, more disasters, more starvation - and if CBS knows what's good for it, it'll stop riding in with care packages and food-for-shelter deals, and just let nature take its course. The downside is that the group tends to bond and put backstabbing aside when real adversity hits - the upside is that this is supposedly a survivor show, and that bonding can be a dramatic weapon. The way the remaining group fixed bitterly on Colby when the rain washed away their camp while he was off eating stew and sipping crisp, refreshing...
...Burbank, Calif., airport-security checkpoint as he was about to board a plane to Las Vegas. Inside his carryon: "illicit mushrooms," according to officials, and not the kind you'd serve at a state dinner. Upon being searched, Sorkin fainted briefly; he was later released on $10,000 bond. To add to the chagrin of one of the most critically acclaimed men in Hollywood, just two months ago he'd been given an award for overcoming drug abuse and encouraging other addicts to do the same. Can Sorkin write his way out of this...
...consider these sterile tools inferior to more social and emotional activities such as talking with or reading to children. These specialists agree that the only thing shown to optimize children's intellectual potential is a secure, trusting relationship with their parents. Time spent cuddling, gazing and playing establishes a bond of security, trust and respect on which the entire child-development pyramid is based. "We have given social and emotional development a back seat," says UCLA's Tyler, "and that's doing a great disservice to kids and to our society...
...half-point last Wednesday, in effect acknowledging what investors have long sensed: the economy is more vulnerable than many think. The cut, which came between Fed meetings, signals that Greenspan will be aggressive in engineering a recovery. That's why long-term interest rates have been rising. The bond market is anticipating heightened credit demand in the coming expansion...
When interest rates on short-term government debt shoot past those on long-term bonds, it is a phenomenon known as an inverted yield curve. And it's bad. Normally, investors with longer-term debt receive a higher interest-rate payment than those holding shorter-term securities. That's because there is a bigger risk that inflation will hurt the value of a 30-year Treasury bond over time...