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Some of the programs also provide a support-group function. At Grandparents' and Grandchildren's Camp in New York and at Grandkids and Me camp in Wisconsin, for example, counselors facilitate daily gab sessions in which grandparents discuss an array of issues while the kids pursue other activities. "I've heard so many grandparents say how much they learned from others about discipline and ways to be in touch," says Don Schmitz, founder of Grandkids and Me and a grandfather of four. The topics range from coping with aging to finding ways to get the most out of retirement...
...time given)—A resident of Cambridge reported that an unknown party placed a condom over the exhaust pipe of her motor vehicle while it was parked at 86 Williams Street. The automobile did not function properly until the condom was removed...
...most people, the function of coffee is simply to deliver a morning wake-up jolt. But a new coffee aims to turn this ritual into a more healthful habit. J.O.E. (Java of Evolution), by Jeremiah's Pick Coffee, is the first "functional" coffee to reach the market. Functional foods, or nutraceuticals, as they are sometimes called, are ordinary products (sodas, cereals, soups and even chewing gum) that have been fortified with extra vitamins, herbs or minerals. They are one of the fastest-growing areas of the food industry. From relative obscurity a decade ago these foods have gone...
...used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean community. Police accused Meishin of exporting transformers whose workaday function of regulating electrical current could have had useful applications in Pyongyang's uranium-enrichment program...
...plans for Iraq is not the attacks on U.S. troops but the hesitancy to give Iraqis what President Bush promised - freedom and democracy. Everywhere I went in Iraq, I found disappointment and anger over U.S. ideas to establish bodies appointed by Americans rather than elected by Iraqis to function as a quasi interim government and a constitution-writing assembly...