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...Parents may no longer chalk up a bad case of the "TERRIBLE TWOS" to a kid's inherent temperament. Researchers now say the fault may lie with the adults. Parents with high levels of anxiety, hostility and work stress are more likely to produce tear-your-hair-out two-year-olds...
...Dole? Never mind that he looked into the camera and counseled that "people shouldn't smoke, young or old." What lingered like a two-pack-a-day cough was the clip shown on the evening news of Dole getting testy about the issue. Bill Clinton would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week...
...addition to books, Curious George stocks stuffed animals, T-shirts, chalk boards, play tea sets, posters and a variety of children's toys, many of them book-related...
...boys, and my dad goes crazy." She has weird rituals. Ask her about her injury-free career, and she scurries for a balance beam to knock wood. Most refreshing, unlike so many world-class gymnasts, who sound as if they've spent too many hours in airless gyms inhaling chalk powder and practicing the mantra "I just want to do the best I can," Moceanu is forthright. She admits she wants to win--but is prepared to lose. "That's what makes you stronger," she says. "The hard times...
...some parts of the business community, the Administration's interest in the achievements of America's corporations doesn't pass the snicker test. "Chalk it up to election-year politics," says Martin Regalia, vice president for economic policy for the Chamber of Commerce. "They have to have a conference to make up for going so far out on a limb to criticize the business community...