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Privacy can be as dicey an issue within the household as it is out on the Web itself. There are thousands of families in which reading the kids' e-mail, monitoring their chats and tracking their Web travels is a solemn parental obligation. "I have every right to read their e-mail," says Bruce Cohen, a Reno, Nev., father of two. "Legally, I'm responsible for them until they're 18." Yet many others believe that invading an e-mail file is no different from opening a pen-and-paper diary that your daughter keeps under lock...
...spectrum of multiracial families is broad but embraces some common issues. For example, parents can't be as arbitrary in their choices of neighborhoods, schools, play groups or other social situations when they have a mixed household. "For a child, it's easier to blend," says Mary Durr, an executive with the Adoption Services Information Agency in Washington. She and other experts suggest searching out racially diverse communities--much as Susan Weiss, a Chicago social worker, had to do after acknowledging the negative racial remarks to which her adopted daughters, Indian-born Cathryn, 12, and Peruvian-born Amanda, 7, were...
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McMahon presided over wrestling's renaissance in the 1980s, making Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and Randy "The Macho Man" Savage into household names...
Hsiao first attained prominence when his criticisms of Medicare in 1986 led to its reform and made HMOs (Health Maintenance Organization) a household word...