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Great philanthropists often follow a simple formula: 1) make billions of dollars in ways that stir controversy and occasional outpourings of ire; 2) give much of it away to marble-plaqued institutions like colleges and libraries so that public revulsion gradually melts into reverence...
...DROP TO DRINK Many mothers of infants don't know that it might be dangerous to give their babies water regularly in addition to breast milk or formula. Infants are unable to filter water properly through their systems...
...didn't have to consult pollsters to choose his vacation spot. But when he returns next month from three weeks of golf and sun on Martha's Vineyard, the country may wonder if another election looms, because the White House will be dispensing a new dose of the same formula Clinton and his pollsters perfected in last year's campaign. Call it the Cult of the Child. From day care to children's health to keeping schools open all afternoon, the White House will be churning out new kid-focused proposals as fast as Gerber can make jars of mashed...
...toughest parts of parenting is the seemingly endless series of decisions you have to make. Breast-feeding or formula? Cloth or disposable? Day care or the mommy track? It is not as though there is an absolute right answer to any of these questions--yet parents often feel the wrong choice could be disastrous. That is especially true when it comes to spanking. Every parent has been in a situation where a whack on the rear seems like the only recourse to little Janie's or Johnny's tantrum. But at least since the 1960s, the conventional wisdom propounded...
...desk. Curled up in his easy chair, he was loose and open and schmoozerific. Since his show was canceled in 1994, though, no one has served his audience, and now the producers of Vibe and Keenen hope to re-create Hall's success by using the same formula. Says Spencer: "We can do a show that's hip and full of energy...