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This is not to say that welfare mothers shouldn't learn how to work. But the double standard shows a tremendous disconnect. As the trial was unfolding, the President and First Lady convened a Conference on Child Care. Mostly, the Clintons clucked over the dismal hodgepodge of day care in this country, the worst in the industrialized world. It's not just that we aren't soft and indulgent, like Sweden. It's that the average pay for caregivers is $12,000 annually; the average training is nil; and there are few standards to speak of. There is massive burnout...
...well as a blow to the Kremlin's prestige. So far, though, NASA has no such plan. And for the moment, the Russians have more immediate concerns. Last month's crash poked a hole in the station's Spektr module, forcing the crew to disconnect power cables so they could isolate the now airless Spektr from the rest...
...Catholic schooling] gave me a good grounding in discipline and respect, both in learning and in life," Keyes says. "I never felt a disconnect from religious life and education...
...cure endometriosis, and a traditional neurologist may be stumped at how breathing exercises could dramatically relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. But the fact remains that in a number of cases these treatments appear to work. For many in mainstream medicine, of course, such a cause-and-effect disconnect sounds like nothing more than an elaborate placebo effect, a sort of self-fulfilling medical prophecy, in which the mere act of having faith in a cure actually leads to one. If alternative treatments are indeed based on such self-healing, that's O.K. with Weil...
Cult members had worked as Web page designers prior to their death, but they focused their eyes on another world--a "level above human" attainable only by suicide. "The final act of metamorphosis or separation from the human kingdom is the 'disconnect' or separation from the human physical container or body," they wrote. "We will rendezvous in the 'clouds' (a giant mothership) for our briefing and journey to the Kingdom of the Literal Heavens." Members believed that the Hale-Bopp comet, which visited Earth last week for the first time in 2,400 years, was a "marker" that the mothership...