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...eight days after Easter and I'm still giddily making my way through a lovingly prepared basket provided by my boyfriend, filled with faux grass and enough sugar to send an entire kindergarten class into shock. The springtime candies - chocolate bunnies, jelly beans and the delightfully ersatz marshmallow Peeps - are an annual rite of passage for me and my dentist. "Oh, hello, Jessica. I see you're here for your traditional post-Easter cleaning?" Others, however tend to view my basket fixation with some concern: How, they seem to be wondering, can a vaguely grown-up person consume so much...
...adolescence is a time for girls to cement their friendships, and strong friendships--and a strong sense of self--help kids through the tough times," she told me. "Unfortunately, some parents are overly invested in their daughters' love lives before they're ready. They think if she has a 'boyfriend,' that means she's popular." Kaufman suggests that parents actively encourage their younger teens to stay involved with their friends and activities and spend time hanging out in groups and with family--with and without their "crushes...
DIED. "BROTHER" THEODORE GOTTLEIB, 94, deadpan performer of what he called "stand-up tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
...half years ago, Tera moved in with her boyfriend David to make room in the house for Mark's new wife Erin and her son from an earlier marriage, Tyler. Now Noa and Zoe must commute between homes once a week. But the entire family--including the newest members--continues to get together for holidays and occasional meals. "The conventional view is that divorce is the disintegration of family," says Mark. "For us, it was an expansion of family, an opportunity to renew and change." The kids, who thrived in one house, seem equally happy in two. Do they fantasize...
...truth universally acknowledged that a slim figure, successful career and dashing boyfriend must be in want of a modern-day singleton...