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...reveal they caved in to the pacifier (recently endorsed by the American Association of Pediatrics as a preventive for SIDS). Ferber followers beg one another's permission to pick up a weeping infant for just five minutes. Even Ferber admits, "Parents have always modified my program, and that's fine." Which makes me feel better about my own cheating (I added white noise and swaddled past the deadline). The truth is, even when parents stick with a program, most of them skip some rules and customize others. Standardized steps may sell books, but they don't make all babies sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Debate That Never Rests | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and got off with an even lighter fine: $160. Just enough for a pretty spiffy new cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 28, 2005 | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...followed by anger at the slow response, then cleanup. But Katrina cut a historic deadly swath across the South, and rebuilding can't start until the cleanup is done. In much of New Orleans, the leafy coverage of live oaks is gone. Lingering in the sky instead is a fine grit that tastes metallic to the tongue. Everyone's life story is out on the curb, soaked and stinky--furniture and clothing, dishes and rotting drywall, even formerly fabulous antiques. Dump trucks come periodically to remove the piles, taking some to a former city park, now a heap of rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans Today: It's Worse Than You Think | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...first day I got on campus I just wanted to do anything possible to win an Ivy League championship and go to the tournament,” Harris says. “If it involves scoring or rebounding or even cheering from the bench, that’s fine with me—I just want...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HARVARD BASKETBALL 2005-06: Athletic Harris Primed to Begin Collegiate Career | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

...problem of equal opportunity” that Summers spoke of was right in front of him. How the College has subsequently marketed HFAI epitomizes its struggle to maintain Harvard’s dual identity. Byerly Hall, home base for Harvard’s undergraduate admissions operation, must walk a fine line between accessibility and exclusivity in its efforts to recruit middle- and low-income applicants for the initiative...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recruiting a New Elite | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

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