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...Supreme Court in 1991, he has asked few questions and has rarely offered opinions during arguments before the court. But now he's ready to spill all. Thomas has signed a reported $1.5 million deal with HarperCollins to write his autobiography. The book will cover his impoverished childhood in Georgia and his punishing confirmation battle, in which he faced charges of sexual harassment. The advance is the largest ever offered to a sitting judge. That is surely due in some part to the fact that few other judges have starred in a national imbroglio involving frequent references to pornographic actors...
...Childhood immunization is a victim of its own success. Thirty years ago, most children got five shots in the first two years of life; today the number is 20, with as many as five in a single visit. Ouch! The first ever five-in-one combination vaccine will take a bit of the sting out of this rite of passage. Infants can now be protected against hepatitis B and polio, along with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), with a single injection given at 2, 4 and 6 months, eliminating half a dozen shots in the process...
...this can be harder with family members than with friends. "With family, there are all the irrational elements of childhood and years of history that make reaching out after years of not communicating more complicated and difficult," says psychotherapist Gussaroff. "Often, though, a major life change or personal crisis can help bring family together...
...Until about a decade ago, most experts assumed that it was a violent or impoverished upbringing that led to violent adults. "We're depraved," says one of the gang members in West Side Story, "on account of we're deprived." Indeed, studies had suggested a correlation between a harsh childhood and later criminality. The link was strongest for those who had been physically abused as kids. Still, not all abused children grow up to perpetrate violence in turn. Something else must be going...
DIED. LUCY GREALY, 39, whose harrowing 1994 memoir, Autobiography of a Face, recounted her repeated surgeries, starting in childhood, to repair severe facial disfigurement resulting from cancer; of undisclosed causes; in New York City. In her book, which became a staple of many college and high school syllabuses, Grealy detailed how her flawed appearance radically altered her sense of self...