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...firstborn and successively fewer of the later-borns-and the later-borns notice it. Educational opportunities can be unevenly shared too, particularly in families that can afford the tuition bills of only one child. Catherine Salmon, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Redlands in Redlands, Calif., laments that even today she finds it hard to collect enough subjects for birth-order studies from the student body alone, since the campus population is typically overweighted with eldest sibs. "Families invest a lot in the firstborn," she says...
...size notes or have a bit of Braille on each so that the blind can truly know what they are using. As more and more disabled move into the mainstream, it is up to us to make ordinary activities like bill recognition a reality for them. Eleanor Carter, GLENDORA, CALIF...
...follow-up examinations every year, and he is involved in clinical trials at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I hope your article will help other parents realize that follow-up visits are necessary to make sure our children grow up to be healthy adults. Marcy Bucy, SUNLAND, CALIF...
...Bionovo, the drug discovery and development company in Emeryville, Calif., that's behind BZL101, there's hope too. The trial is the first FDA-validated clinical study of a potential cancer drug derived from a Chinese medicinal herb, says Dr. Mary Tagliaferri, a co-founder of the company, former practicing acupuncturist and a breast-cancer survivor. "Sixty-two percent of chemotherapy drugs come from natural products, and plants have been the basis of almost every new class of medication," she says. "It makes sense that these plants can act as anticancer agents...
...which we have no historical perspective.” Although Nobel prizes are meant to be apolitical, the question of Gore’s running for president has been raised by supporters, despite his statements that he is not interested in running. At a news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., last Friday, Gore ignored reporters’ questions about the possibility that he run for president in 2008. “I’m going back to work right now,” he said. McCarthy said that inside the White House, Gore might not be as effective...