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Kids today feel safer than they did five years ago? Did the pollsters feed the data into the wrong hole? These are the questions no doubt running through the minds of parents and educators as they mull the counterintuitive results of a New York Times/CBS poll, released Wednesday, which shows that the vast majority of American teenagers feel somewhat safe, safe or extremely safe in their schools. In 1994, 40 percent of teenagers worried they would be a victim of violence in school or on the street. Today, only 24 percent fear for their safety. (The results are virtually identical...
Parents can also de-stress by cutting back on their children's activities. If keeping up with your kid's schedule is killing you, you might insist that he choose between karate lessons and the theater troupe. Parents should also sneak away from work and family occasionally to feed their own interests and have fun. I keep a basketball in the trunk of my car just for this purpose. The way I see it, there are things I may never be able to fix, at work or at home, but at least I can work on my jump shot...
...synonymous with big-time recycling in one of Asia's fastest-growing economies. Working with about 100 recycling companies belonging to her cooperative, she coordinates efforts to collect industrial and consumer trash, salvage everything, from paper and plastic to scrap steel, and mold the refuse into raw materials to feed Taiwan's factories. Out of that garbage heap comes treasure. Last year the co-op brought in more than $100 million from customers like China Steel and Formosa Plastics. But money is not the motivation behind Wu's not-for-profit outfit. After paying office charges and the modest salaries...
...Sunday, Cornell's co-captain Kelly Dean finished a feed from sophomore Ashleigh Snelson at 29:16 of the second half to provide the game's only score. It was Dean's fourth goal of the season...
...expenses of child rearing create new financial challenges. "We should be thinking about retirement," says the grandmother of a 19-month-old. "Instead we're thinking about investment so we can see her through college." One grandfather came out of retirement when he acquired three new mouths to feed. Now 75, he works nights and sleeps during the day, with a 30-mile commute...