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...recent study found that 40% of day-care centers for infants and toddlers gave less than the minimal standard of care. Problems ranged from safety hazards to unresponsive caregivers to a lack of toys. If a caregiver spoons food from one bowl into the mouths of half a dozen toddlers lined up in high chairs, as has been known to happen, not only is the health of the children at risk but they are surely not receiving the kind of attention that promotes healthy brain development...
Bulgarians voted for all the recent Socialist governments, of course, including the present one. But 1996 was their wake-up year, as the country neared bankruptcy and more than a dozen banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
Fortunately, they freely confess to fallibility. Indeed, such is their concern over being misperceived as color mafiosi that at conference end, a dozen CMG officers gathered in the press suite to downplay their own significance to the assembled media. That the assembled media consisted of a local reporter, a trade journalist and myself proved no deterrent to their earnest onslaught. CMG only forecasts, insisted our briefers; it doesn't dictate; the consumer is the ultimate arbiter...
...meat-and-potatoes product is DVD video, which is meant to send vhs and laser disc the way of all eight-track. Two dozen models of DVD players should reach the market this year at prices ranging from less than $500 to more than $1,000. All offer DVD's stunning sound and vision, along with the various bells and whistles that digital storage's interactive ease and sheer data acreage allow, including PG- and R-rated versions of a given movie on one disc, multiple languages, no rewinding, movie-and-game pairings, instant searches and every custom setup...
...Baltimore, Maryland, that specializes in reprinting historical works by black authors. This is a significant move for two reasons. For starters it may show, as Mosley says, that "a black writer can bring his or her work to a black publisher and make it work. There are about a dozen black writers whose work sells really big. We're making millions for white publishers, and I thought it was time to give back something...