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...individual level. Playing or singing music in a group creates a sense of community and teamwork. Being part of a school choir or band can teach a child listening skills and instill a sense of responsibility to a larger group. Most importantly, music can add stability and comfort to a young person's life. The more precarious a child's home life or external condition, the more important the need for mental rejuvenation at school. (Since when have the three R's rejuvenated...
Knowing it's all still there brings comfort to many a wanderer. Matt McGowan, 24, who works in a digital-publishing company in San Francisco, can fondly picture his possessions back in New York City, including his collections of baseball cards and comics and "a pair of beaten-up, dried-out track shoes I'd never throw away. The stuff instills that feeling that it's still your home...
Robert Billingham, professor of human and family studies at Indiana University at Bloomington, suggests instilling in children the idea that safety and comfort reside not in the physical space or the objects but in their connection to their family. While children are still at home, you can gently tell them, "A year or two after you graduate, we'll make this into an office...
...abortion was to draw tight the line between abortion and murder. Mifepristone, argue its supporters, makes abortion look more like birth control, "more like a standard medical treatment than something that has been marginalized and ghetto-ized," notes Boston University ethicist Annas. But even greater availability and a higher comfort level among patients do not mean the total number of abortions will necessarily rise. During the decade that the pill has been available in France, more and more women--now 29%--have chosen medical over surgical abortion, but the availability of the drug did not drive up the total number...
...forays on the National Public Radio site (at npr.org) I had never bothered sifting through the thousands of stations that broadcast online. Now a start-up called Sonicbox is making it easy for lazybones like me to tune in to the rest of the world from the comfort of home. Its new iM Remote Tuner is a handheld remote control for Internet radio that not only lets you switch stations from up to 100 ft. away from your PC--even if you're in another room--but also lets you play the music through your home stereo speakers...