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Perhaps none of the dread offspring archetypes--the thumb sucker, the binky addict, the colicky screamer--is more feared than the bad sleeper, and parents will try any formula that offers the prospect of some rest. Sleep manuals outsell even the baby bible What to Expect When You're Expecting. For years, parents have clung to competing sleep-training camps (Never wake a sleeping baby! No naps in the stroller!) in hopeful desperation. So when Dr. Richard Ferber, author of the best-selling 1985 book Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, seemingly backpedaled on his signature "cry it out" technique...
...simple: Take one of the world’s most famous rappers and make a movie about his Horatio Algiers-like ascent from the gutter to the limelight. Easy, right? But unfortunately, “Get Rich” strays from the “8 Mile” formula and finds itself caught between a “drug movie” and a “rap movie” without really committing to either. Along with overcoming prejudice and juicing Brittany Murphy in a factory, “8 Mile” is about battle rapping...
...convinced. And not everyone will be until there's a biological test for depression instead of the series of questions doctors use now. Don't hold your breath waiting for that, says British academic Moncrieff: "I believe that human emotions will never be located in a simple biochemical formula." The chemical-imbalance theory is nonsense, says Adelaide psychiatrist Jureidini. SSRIs alter a patient's serotonin levels within days, he says, but their antidepressant effect - if there is any - doesn't occur for several weeks. "The idea that there's a serotonin deficiency that explains depression is such a gross oversimplification...
...song that is more fitting for a Lifetime movie of the week. With cliché lyrics like “Spread your wings before they fall apart,” Williams doesn’t have the vocal capacity to pull off the ballad. The formula works, however, in “Advertising Space,” which finds Williams musing on modern existential dilemmas and Marlon Brando’s death, to a jazzy tone. “Space” in particular seems like it could have come straight from a Coldplay set. The album?...
...mention the chill factor: temperatures will be “colder than normal in December and exceptionally cold in the second half of January.” Where does the Dublin, N.H. based publication derive its clairvoyant powers? From its founder’s “secret formula,” created according to his theory that “weather on Earth was influenced by sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the surface of the sun.” Along with weather predictions, the Almanac also provides helpful information on subjects like chickens, planting tables...