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Lehrer is also a household name come election time, having moderated 10 of the nationally televised debates in the past five presidential elections...
...family-meal crusaders offer lots of advice to parents seeking to recenter their household on the dinner table. Groups like Ready, Set, Relax!, based in Ridgewood, N.J., have dispensed hundreds of kits to towns from Kentucky to California, coaching communities on how to fight overscheduling and carve out family downtime. More schools are offering basic cooking instruction. It turns out that when kids help prepare a meal, they are much more likely to eat it, and it's a useful skill that seems to build self-esteem. Research on family meals does not explore whether it makes a difference...
From her marriage partner to her career choices, Marina von Neumann Whitman ’56 has always known what she wanted.Growing up in the household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father’s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known...
...Yoplait, less is more. "The buying rate and household penetration are low, about 46%, [but] the mix of people eating yogurt will be widespread," says Robert Waldron, Yoplait division president. Yoplait's foray into the kid category with Go-Gurt in 1998 may have seeded generations of growth. Moms in the suburbs outside Minneapolis were among the first to toss the 2.25-oz. tubes full of such flavors as Strawberry Splash to children who, sans spoons, squeezed it on the go. Five years later, kids ages 8 to 12 were choosing yogurt as a snack 8 1/2 times as often...
...best seller ever really was a book called Couples, about American domestic life in the '60s. I felt I had something to say about that. I had the feeling as a child that there was something more going on in this household--with the discontents of both parents, and the tensions, and even the kind of comedy that we perpetrated for our little in-house audience--that all this was more complicated than most fiction was showing. And so I began with the premise that there was more to say about domestic life. I can bring some new light...