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...though standards of efficiency in child-care centers - including appropriate staff-to-children ratios, cleanliness of the premises and good hygiene practices - are mandated, many day-care centers that operate in the U.S. are not in compliance with state regulations, says Wolf. Further, parents may not realize that most church-based day-care centers are exempt from certain regulations that are required by the state. (See how not to get the H1N1...
...movie, and I decided to go with the western.” This decision involved numerous changes to the original script, including a complete overhaul of the setting. The throne room of the original becomes a tycoon’s office; the temple of Apollo becomes a hacienda-style church; and the cave of the spirits becomes an old mine. Most of the action, however, takes place...
...pine for its simplicity and order. One of the finest essays in the collection, “Farewell to the Queue,” by Vladimir Sorokin, uses queues as a metaphor for the togetherness and order of Soviet society—a “quasi-surrogate for church,” which taught obedience while giving people time to ponder the advantages of socialism. In his view, the market economy replaced order with chaos, collectiveness with competition, simplicity with complexity; it replaced the queue with the crowd. “The ordeal of the free market...
Pastor Grace Kim welcomed Nichols to her church, which has no nursery on site and no children who attend the twice-daily services. "We want to try to give everyone a chance to rehabilitate, no matter their background." (See the top 10 religion stories...
Only time - and judges' decisions - will determine whether the new law bars offenders from attending any church (where children might attend) or just those with child-care facilities. What is clear is that those who hammered out the small print of the legislation are sticking...