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...serial killer. Residents of the slum had repeatedly warned the police that a murderer appeared to be operating in the area, and distraught parents say they had implored the authorities to help search for their missing children-only to be rebuffed. Vandana Sarkar, whose 20-year-old daughter Pinky disappeared on Oct. 5, says she was told by police that Pinky had "probably just taken up with a man," despite the fact that she had a baby at home. When Aloki Halder's 13-year-old child Bina went missing in March 2005, the police chided...
Educational toy: How many models does it take to patent a tool for helping kids learn their letters? Just one, actually. Brinkley did it in 1991, when her daughter with Billy Joel was 5 years old. Heidi Klum, perhaps you could tackle learning colors...
...presidential search committee has seriously considered non-Harvard grads in the past. In the 2000-2001 search, Lee C. Bollinger—now president of Columbia University—was a finalist without a Harvard degree who also was tied to the University by a daughter who had been an undergraduate. Carrie J. Bollinger graduated from the College...
...Frequent touch is indeed important; but is it really so much harder to hug someone who is 5'6," or bring her to the table at dinnertime? Turning people into permanent children denies them whatever subtle therapeutic benefit comes from being seen as adults. "I know they love their daughter," says Julia Epstein, communications director for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund,(www.dredf.org) and the mother of a disabled child. "But they refer to her as the pillow angel. I know that's meant to be a sweet term, but it's terminally infantalizing." Her organization issued a statement...
...this country. "The web of support for families who really want to care for their family member is uneven and sometimes tattered," says Thomas Murray, President of the Hasting Center, an independent bioethics research institute. "If there were abundant support to help care for a fully grown son or daughter, then people might not be pushed to a radical medical option like this...