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DIED. CLAYTON KIRKPATRICK, 89, pioneering editor of the Chicago Tribune; in Glen Ellyn, Ill. When he took over the paper in 1969, Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial, "No political party should take the Tribune for granted." Under his 10-year reign, the Tribune dropped its partisan Republican stance and became an objective, nationally respected publication...
...easy to tell yourself that your child is going through a chubby phase. But your pediatrician's growth and body mass index charts don't lie. "You should begin to be concerned if you see rapid, abnormal upward weight divergence," says psychotherapist Ellyn Satter, author of Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family. If, over two years, you see a child's weight jump, say, from the 25th to the 75th percentile of the average weight for his age while his height stays at the 50th percentile, then there's cause for concern...
...course, if an unsuspecting spouse discovers a large stash, it can undermine the trust in a marriage. Psychologists point to another danger: stashes that are used to avoid conflict. "Money is such a loaded issue, many couples don't have the communication skills to talk about it," says Ellyn Bader, co-founder of the Couples Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. But if you never engage your husband in frank discussions about the budget, you may drift further apart, she warns. "I see lots of premature divorces among couples who keep things so toned down that eventually the relationship feels empty...
...trouble began with what felt like a speck of grit in my left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...
...that somehow we are going to change human nature. We think we can put men and women together in a high-stress, testosterone-charged, macho environment and expect them to stay away from one another. That's nonsense. We're not going to change human behavior. DON YARROLL Glen Ellyn, Illinois...