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...should parents go to accommodate the demands of pretend friends? Taylor recalls one child who forced her family to wait at restaurants for a table big enough to fit her nonexistent companions. Another little girl's imaginary friend was so ill the child wouldn't leave her unsupervised at home. Taylor's advice is to try to find solutions within the boundaries of a child's fantasy. To handle the sick friend, for example, the parents created another imaginary friend specifically to be a caretaker...
...Fit for a King? Well, for a prince certainly. Built in Bangkok in 1908 by Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath and converted into a boutique hotel in 2003 by his granddaughter, Narisa, the Chakrabongse Villas may well be one of the Thai capital's best-kept secrets...
...very policies that Klein criticizes are preserving his freedom to be critical. Jeff Copes Frisco, North Carolina, U.S. The greatness of this country is inextricably linked to constitutional protection for all - even the bad guys. Forgetting that lesson - or, worse still, subverting it, as Gonzales has seen fit to do - weakens us at our moral center and further cheapens us in the eyes of the world. Anne Riffenburgh South Pasadena, California, U.S. Too Few Good Men "Where Are The New Recruits?" had it right: the U.S. National Guard and Army Reserve are strained to the breaking point because of enlistee...
Rimington remained anonymous until 1992, when she was appointed MI5's first female director general. Previously the position was so sub-rosa that the agency didn't even acknowledge it existed, but in an attempt at post--cold war openness and, Rimington suspects, a fit of self-congratulatory pride at hiring a woman, Rimington was outed by her own government. "People were astonished," she says, laughing. "Particularly my neighbors who just thought I was a quiet old lady." Being the first public face of a counterespionage agency made her a high-value target for terrorists--the I.R.A. was very active...
...build his own nuclear program by importing German technology and engineers, but the effort failed. To make its bombs, Libya wanted to enrich uranium rather than produce plutonium in a reactor because, says the official, "with a reactor, you cannot hide anything." Khan's system was a perfect fit, and as the commercial relationship was launched, Khan's underlings whetted Gaddafi's appetite with an unexpected gift. Khan gave the Libyans a stack of technical instructions for how to build a nuclear warhead. The material was wrapped in the kind of plastic sheeting used by dry cleaners. Khan never told...