Word: frets
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...music, math and literature, while kids with siblings care more for...mechanical and technical work, skilled trades, and labor." Yeah, yeah, thinks the reader, concluding (as does McKibben, in fact) that only children are a lot like the rest of us. If your kid has no sibs, don't fret...
...fret over McKibben's projections of population and resources. U.S. population growth is slowing, but at the current birth rate of just under two children for each woman--a bit under replacement rate--the population will swell from its present 270 million to about 400 million before it levels off around 2050. That is a horde of people, too many for anyone who worries about future food and water supply, air quality and energy depletion (but not too many for contrarian scientists, energy-company spinmeisters and idealogues who rejoice that each new human being is a potential Mozart...
LONDON: Since England got knocked out of the World Cup, Britons have had to find other things to fret about. Northern Ireland has been obligingly explosive, of course -- and now that other old standby, the royal family, has offered up its requisite amount of gossip. Wednesday a spokeswoman for Prince Charles confirmed that Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's longtime mistress, has met Prince William for the first time. When Diana was alive, Camilla was kept very much in the shadows. Her sudden flurry of interest in Charles' son -- they reportedly got together three times over the last month...
...tobacco industry? House Speaker Newt Gingrich wanted to know. "Newt, I know you're hearing that we've gone crazy over here on tobacco legislation, but I want to assure you it's O.K.," McCain told him. And when White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles called to fret that McCain was losing the public health community, McCain said, "Erskine, we are working on that as we speak...
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Pregnant women probably needn't fret about antidepressants. Patients taking the newer kinds, like Paxil and Zoloft, don't seem to have any more miscarriages or babies with birth defects than those on a placebo...