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...easy to predict which sibling will take on the job. Most frequently, says Cleveland University sociologist Sarah Matthews, the caregiver is the female child who lives closest and the one who is single or has the fewest career or family responsibilities. Sometimes a son will take on that role, but it is rarely a group effort. Less understood are the underlying psychological reasons that a particular adult child steps up to embrace--or gets stuck with--a parent's late-life needs. But, clearly, the history of family relationships--which child was more in synch with which parent, which siblings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Cares More for Mom? | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...team trying to score with a demographic that has largely turned away from baseball. Just 8.7% of baseball fans nationwide last year, as measured by Simmons Market Research Bureau, were black--which mirrors the sport's racial makeup: 9% of last season's major leaguers were black, the fewest in 20 years, according to a University of Central Florida study. Baseball's back in D.C., but to endure in a city that is 60% African American, the Nats need to do what the sport has not--bring blacks back to baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball in D.C.: Pitching to Black Fans | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...down the list at 31st in the nation in penalty minutes allowed, with 8.1 per game. That kind of patience combined with the standout play of McDonald has helped the Golden Knights rise to eighth in country in scoring defense with just 2.12 goals allowed per game, the fewest for any team not in the top ten in the polls...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ECAC Playoffs Pit Crimson vs. Clarkson | 3/4/2005 | See Source »

That was the fewest points allowed by Harvard since it held Eastern Nazarene to 28 points...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AOTW: Cserny Clutch in Crucial Contests | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

...also reiterate our call for a system of instant runoff voting, in which voters rank candidates instead of just voting for a single one. It works by eliminating the candidates with the fewest first-choice votes, giving their voters’ second-choice votes to the remaining candidates, and repeating the process until there are two candidates left—one of them able to claim a majority. The system has a proven track record everywhere from congressional nominations in Utah to the Undergraduate Council elections here at Harvard. The only barriers to its progress are the fears...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Three's (Not) A Crowd | 3/1/2005 | See Source »

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