Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge the best way you get votes under PR is through personal contact," she says...
Maybe you don't mind the dents your glasses have carved into the sides of your nose. Maybe you actually enjoy cleaning your contact lenses. But if you're anything like the 160 million other people in the U.S. who wear contact lenses or glasses, then you've probably occasionally wondered what your life would be like with perfect vision. Oh, what a beautiful prospect! No more foggy spectacles on winter days. No more fishing for dropped contacts in the bathroom sink. No more misplaced glasses when you're rushing off to work...
Death is quantifiable, as the data sadly show. What can't be measured so easily is the benefit of closeness, both for the baby and the parent. There is no question that parents and their babies should have as much intimate contact as possible. The problem is how to get it. Dr. John Kattwinkel, who headed a task force on infant-sleep positions and SIDS for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told me that if parents can avoid "loose bedding, pillows, soft surfaces, waterbeds, mattresses that might pull away from bed frames, smoking and drinking in bed," then co-sleeping...
That love may be the emotional equivalent of superglue, but it needs points of contact in order to stick. And today, like other family institutions, grandparenthood is being buffeted by the sea changes of the late 20th century. Working against the free exchange of love are high divorce and remarriage rates, job stresses of dual-career parents (and grandparents), a global economy that puts vast distances between family members and a pervasive bias against age spawned by the American obsession with youthfulness...
...that grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies because they share a common enemy. If parents are the enemy, they must be won over, for they are the gatekeepers who regulate grandparents' access to their grandchildren. According to researchers, the better the relationship between parent and grandparent, the greater the contact and closeness between grandparent and grandchild. "It's up to the parents to make the grandparents feel welcome and to send the message to their children that they're really integral," says Sally Newman, executive director of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh. "The parents should encourage frequent visits...