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The answer came to him while surfing the Web. That's when he stumbled on the site for Grandkids and Me camp, in Amery, Wis. The three-year-old program caters to grandparents who want to spend a weekend away with a grandchild. Twenty-five to 30 campers bunk in...
But it seems that nothing is more powerful than the buying reflex of a grandparent. Jan Burton, 52, has two grandchildren, Grace, 2, and James, 6 weeks. "My heart just glows when I see them wearing something so cute," says Burton. Her last impulse buy for her granddaughter was a...
More adults are confronting this situation. With life-spans expanding, today's seniors living far from their grown children see remarriage as an attractive alternative to spending the next 30 years alone. According to the Census Bureau, approximately 13% of currently divorced 50-year-old men and 8% of currently...
The study, appearing in the September issue of the journal Hypertension, shows that healthy babies who had a “preferential response” to salt taste and who had at least one grandparent inflicted with hypertension had higher blood pressures than other infants.
Now meet Roomba, a new housecleaning robot spawned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab and built by a Somerville, Mass., company called iRobot. Roomba's function is a humble one: it's designed to vacuum your living room while you're otherwise engaged. But Roomba also...