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Like their female counterparts, most male nannies are in their 20s. Many care for older boys and come with experience as camp counselors, day-care workers or teacher's aides. They are most sought after by a growing cadre of single mothers, many of whom want a daily dose of male energy around the house for their kids. But the trend is also being spurred by dual-income couples in which the father travels a lot or is older and less equipped for, say, a pickup game of tackle football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Super Mannies | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Pause. Uncomfortable silence. Among the clan for whom a wrong answer equals more shopping, tension and anticipation builds as the professor, fumbling to mix the right dose of anesthetizing sympathy with academic severity in front of what seems like a thousand pairs of eyes, weighs his options...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: disjecta | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...course the best source of any vitamin is a healthy diet. For those of us who still don't eat our beans and vegetables, most multivitamins contain the recommended daily folic-acid dose of 400 micrograms. (Eating four slices of enriched bread gives you the equivalent of roughly 100 micrograms.) There is no risk of overdose, although high levels of folic acid can mask the signs of pernicious anemia in people who have developed the disorder. Folic acid by itself may not keep the doctor away, but there's no harm trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise of Folic Acid | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...different paths since being in high school. Kit (Zoe Saldana) took the tempting cheerleading, Mimi (Taryn Manning) is naturally the opposite (big loser) and Lucy (Britney Spears) is the straight-A valedictorian with exorbitantly large breasts. Obviously, these restless young ladies need a cross-country road trip for a dose of self-discovery to ease that angst. Think Thelma & Louise plus Friend and Hot Guy set to “Not a Girl” and “Stronger” and one has a decent enough mental image of Crossroads...

Author: By Clint J. Froelich and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Britney: Not Yet A Girl..Not Yet a Film | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson gave the Big Green a dose of its own medicine in the third period. Catlin picked up the rebound off a Hagerman shot from the point and put it past Dartmouth goaltender Amy Ferguson for her third goal in the past two games...

Author: By David Weinfeld, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Overpowers Vermont After Dartmouth Misstep | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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