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...Japanese American. They planned to raise their two kids to be color-blind, but found they couldn't ignore the supermarket stares and curious comments about the children's appearance. In her new book, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? (Perseus), Nakazawa offers multiracial parents ideas on how to cope. Among her suggestions: discuss race inside the family before kids hear about it elsewhere; invite kids to learn the languages associated with their family heritage; consider sending children to multiracial summer camps; and teach kids about the members of both sides of the family. --L.McL...
MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Unholy Row The Greek Orthodox Church came out against the Mayor of Athens' plan to regulate the city's sex trade in advance of next year's Olympic Games. The Church's Holy Synod accused city officials of wanting to license extra brothels to cope with an expected increase in demand during the Games. Prostitution is legal in Greece if practiced in a licensed brothel; each brothel can employ up to three people. City officials plan to register 230 establishments for a total of 960 approved sex workers. Not that ambitious, given that at the Sydney Olympics...
Nowhere are the symptoms of this disease more exposed than in the elevator. In this most unfortunate of social mini-interactions, there are a number of methods employed to cope with the threat of actually having to chat with a fellow rider...
...cast a spell to make dirty dishes clean themselves, but she can't create new kitchenware out of thin air. Rowling has created a world in which a boy can fly on a broom, talk to snakes and grow gills like a fish, but he can no more easily cope with his crushing sadness about his dead parents than any other child. "She mixes the real-life struggles in with the imaginary, magic struggles," says Casey Brewer, 15, of Longwood, Fla. "Harry and his friends have to think through the obstacles in life the same as they have to think...
Blair will not go down in history as the only reporter to fudge a line or two. If the scope of his misdeeds seems astounding, his behavior should be put in context. People must cope on a daily basis with the news media's half-truths, tainted and slanted stories and outright censorship. Blair's scandal is only a very small part of that. The public should tolerate none of it. DAVID C. HOFFMEISTER Easton...