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...same child-rearing techniques that give the children of middle-class and educated parents an edge socially and in school - and that instruction is often eye-opening for both Ballard and her clients. You would be surprised to know what new parents don't know, Ballard says, recalling the case of one father who thought babies couldn't hear at birth. He asked, "When do their eyes open?' He thought they were like puppies," she says. (See 9 kid foods to avoid...
...given to the Muslim world, the Obama administration cannot simply absolve the Bush administration of its sins. There must be an investigation—both at the national level and at least some semblance of cooperation with the investigators appointed by the International Criminal Court. In any case, the Obama administration should remember that human rights and global counterterrorism are interconnected issues. After all, as New York Times writer Patrick Tyler stated at the onset of the invasion of Iraq, there are, in fact, still two world superpowers: the United States and world public opinion...
Gang activity is suspected in a case of vandalism at a Harvard Medical School building located in the school’s Longwood campus. According to a spokesman for the Boston Police Department, officers were dispatched to 641 Huntington Avenue, the location of the Harvard Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, at approximately 8 a.m. on Friday. Upon arrival, the officers spoke to an employee of the G. Greene Construction Co.—which is currently commissioned to renovate the building—who pointed out 11 separate tagging sites on the building. BPD spokesman Joseph Zanoli said...
...congregation said the 38-year-old nun had been under treatment for depression. After news of the incident spread, a crowd gathered around the house and shouted slogans alleging that harassment had led Sister Josephine to kill herself. The police had to intervene, and an inquiry into the case was later ordered. Six months earlier, on Aug. 11 of last year, 23-year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St. Mary's Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand...
...Church, which accounts for 70% of all denominations among India's 25 million Christians, owns vast properties across the country, including over 30,000 educational institutions and 6,000 hospitals. In Kerala, the Church runs 60% of the private educational institutes. The state's near 100% literacy - a singular case in a country where the average adult literacy rate is just about 60% - is thanks largely to the church's zealous missionary activity. Yet critics claim this gives the church a high degree of political and economic power. Church-reform activists also say the affairs of the Catholic Church...