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...addiction, mental illness and family violence. Nurses visit once a week during pregnancy and early infancy, answering health questions, teaching basic parenting skills and, crucially, helping moms whose own early lives were often characterized by chaos build confidence that they can do better for their children. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...talk to them more, result in exponential rewards for babies. In poor families, adults tend to speak to babies only to issue commands, in a business-only style of parenting rather than talking to children to communicate affection, identify objects, introduce concepts or teach language - a phenomenon more common in middle-class and wealthy households. Studies have shown that by preschool age, children whose parents gesture or talk to them less in babyhood know significantly fewer vocabulary words than children whose parents engage them more often. That deficit can affect students' performance for years...
...drugs to use," says Fry. Most do not have the time or ability to test each patient's virus to determine whether it is a resistant strain, so the CDC recommends that physicians stay updated on the predominant strains circulating in their communities. If the Tamiflu-resistant variety is common, they should prescribe either Relenza or the combination of Tamiflu and Flumadine instead...
...like to think about the universe because we fear the immensity that is everything," writes Christopher Potter in You Are Here. A former literary publisher, Potter set aside that all-too-common fear and got to writing a layman's guide to the universe, a relatively brief look at how the breadth of scientific theory has evolved since the birth of mankind. Along the way, he makes the case for why scientific inquiry should be engaged in even by non-scientists. "Who can deny the universe when there is so much of it?" (Read "Nicaragua's Vampire Problem...
...tone, and the song remains fragmented.The problems in “The Spirit of Apollo,” however, are not found in the individual performances of the album’s many contributors. In fact, even the actual production work of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, the common denominators of the varied sounds, demonstrates good taste and technical skill. The duo shows off their mastery of audio samples in moderation before cutting loose on the three-minute instrumental “O Pata” near the end of the album. The team exudes confidence in a variety...