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...responsibility of parenthood encompasses 24 hours and holds much decision making. Is it fair to lay all the blame on the doctors' side in connection with where children should sleep and at what age? To follow the norm and so-called expert advice blindly is a convenient way to cover up a lack of personal development. Ideally, parents should have educated themselves from a variety of sources, and then open their heart and listen to their intuition. In the end, every individual is responsible for his or her own decisions. Caring for children is the most significant responsibility a human...
DIED. BERNARD VONNEGUT, 82, physicist who turned rainmaking into more than a song and dance; in Albany, N.Y. An expert in tempests and twisters, Vonnegut (brother of novelist Kurt) conjured rain in the 1940s by seeding clouds with silver iodide...
...does. Growing up, I came up with this name: I'm a 'Cablinasian,' " which he explained is a self-crafted acronym that reflects his one-eighth Caucasian, one-fourth black, one-eighth American Indian, one-fourth Thai and one-fourth Chinese roots with a precision that a racial-classifications expert under South African apartheid would admire. He said that when he was asked to check a box for racial background, he couldn't settle on just one. "I checked off 'African American' and 'Asian.' Those are the two I was raised under, and the only two I know...
PRACTICING WHAT THEY PREACH On the next level is what marketing expert Carol Cone, CEO of Cone Communications, calls "passion branders." They are companies with a long-term commitment to a cause. They not only raise money but also walk the walk of deeply interested parties. If they sponsor environmental awareness, you can be sure they also recycle. McDonald's, for example, has a clear interest in kids and local communities. Its Ronald McDonald House for the families of seriously ill children is one of the country's best-known charitable...
...while the women's teams represented an expenditure of $62,000. Brown, which was supported by briefs from more than 60 other institutions, has since spent an estimated $1 million on a team of lawyers to fight the Title IX ruling. Duke University law professor John Weistart, an expert on sports law, says, "I've looked at the amicus briefs, and some of them read like polemics, comparing Title IX to affirmative action. This case became the rallying cry for the anti-Title IX folks, so the reaction of supporters is understandable...