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This is why the story of China's intriguing evolution is so much more nuanced than it looks from afar and why our Newstour was so valuable. I like to think that our founder Henry Luce, who was born in China and whose open-minded curiosity eventually overcame his missionary impulses toward that country, would agree...
...regular child prodigy, MARSHALL BALL has had to overcome much to share his gift. The 13-year-old from Austin, Texas, whose recently published book has already gone to No. 4 on Amazon.com's best-seller list, is unable to speak and barely able to move, having been born with a still undiagnosed illness. He composed the poems and thoughts in Kiss of God: The Wisdom of a Silent Child by tapping on a primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant...
...fact is, 3,880,894 American babies were born in 1997, the most recent year for which we have statistics. Sadly, 28,045 died before their first birthday. But only 64 of them died on adult beds, compared with 736 who died of other accidental injuries--for instance, 160 babies under the age of one year died in motor-vehicle accidents...
...Every time a child is born, a grandparent is born too," says grandparenting guru and retired child psychiatrist Arthur Kornhaber. The bond between grandchild and grandparent is second only to the attachment between parent and child. Kornhaber calls it "clear love" because it has no strings attached. "There's always some conditional element to parents' love. Grandparents are just glad to have you, and the child can feel that...
...Sara Miller McCune, 58, of Santa Barbara, Calif., "stepgrandparenting was a special process where love was learned, not born." After the 1990 death of her husband, she continued a stepgrandparenting tradition of more than two decades. She spent three days last year traveling in Britain with one of her four stepgrandchildren, Samantha Sarvat, 18. Says Samantha: "I never saw my grandmother laugh so hard or look so happy." That's the main thing: the blended family offers stepgrandparents an opportunity to play a unique role, in which all share in the rewards...