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...more hours children spend away from their mothers, researchers concluded, the more likely they are to be defiant, aggressive and disobedient by the time they get to kindergarten. Kids who are in child care more than 30 hours a week "scored higher on items like 'gets in lots of fights,' 'cruelty,' 'explosive behavior,' as well as 'talking too much,' 'argues a lot' and 'demands a lot of attention,'" said principal researcher Jay Belsky. It didn't matter if the children were black or white, rich or poor, male or female, and - most confounding - whether the care was provided...
...worried at all? The researchers noted that almost all the "aggressive" toddlers were well within the range of normal behavior for four-year-olds. And what about that adjective, anyway? Is a vice not sometimes a form of virtue? Cruelty never is, but arguing back? Is that being defiant - or spunky and independent? "Demanding attention" could be a natural and healthy skill to develop if you are in a room with 16 other kids...
Despite these defiant expectations, the possibility of increased unemployment could threaten the sector's healthy condition. For investors, the question is whether cheap mortgages can trump wider fears about the economy...
Saddam hussein kicked off the year with a defiant military parade in Baghdad, startling Western military experts with a display of new missiles and refurbished tanks. He sent his deputies to Cairo and Damascus, where they upgraded Iraq's political ties and signed free-trade agreements with Egypt and Syria, key U.S. allies in the Gulf War against Saddam a decade ago. Then came last week's Arab Summit...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, producer-director and grudging bearer of the label "message filmmaker" who received nine Oscar nominations but never won; in Los Angeles. Kramer used film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...