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...Ballard's job - when she can get in the house - is to try to give low-income parents a leg up. She teaches them many of the same child-rearing techniques that give the children of middle-class and educated parents an edge socially and in school - and that instruction is often eye-opening for both Ballard and her clients. You would be surprised to know what new parents don't know, Ballard says, recalling the case of one father who thought babies couldn't hear at birth. He asked, "When do their eyes open?' He thought they were like...
...expansion, as long as we recognize that serving 500,000 new families per year will take time." But it's an investment that self-propagates. Once the nurses have educated new moms, says Ballard, the mothers start educating one another. "It's so neat to watch," she says. "We give information to our clients, and they share with neighbors. One client was the go-to person for everything. She'd say, 'Talking to your babies makes them smart.' And the other moms would always come...
...Charleen Haarhoff to three sets, but ultimately lost 7-5, 2-6, 6-3. In the sixth position, Davis, trailing six games to five and behind 40-0, fought back for a gritty 7-5 first-set victory. Davis’ opponent, Marija Citic, then retired, to give Davis her second victory of the weekend. In doubles action, the three Harvard pairings failed to win a match. WILLIAM & MARY 6, HARVARD 1 The Tribe’s two nationally-ranked players proved too much for the Crimson. At No. 1 singles, No. 86 Katarina Zoricic took down Ko. Though...
...timely clears before the Crimson finally killed the penalty.“Our penalty killers did a great job,” Donato said. “Our forwards and defensemen really worked [to block shots], and Ryan Carroll was strong on the penalty kill as well. If you give them those type of opportunities, more often than not you’re going to regret it. We dodged a bullet, but hopefully we learned our lesson.”As the seconds ticked away, the Crimson had victory in sight. But after a clearing attempt resulted in a turnover...
...plan, announced by CEO Andrew Witty on February 13 in a speech delivered at Harvard Medical School, would limit prices in the 50 least developed countries and give back a portion of the profits gained in these countries toward programs to expand their health-care capacity. More surprisingly, GSK also announced that it would allow outside researchers access to some of its patented medical technologies in an effort to facilitate more research aimed at so-called “neglected diseases,” or diseases that currently suffer from a severe lack of research funding...