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Even more fundamental, says Dr. Bruce Perry of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is the role parents play in setting up the neural circuitry that helps children regulate their responses to stress. Children who are physically abused early in life, he observes, develop brains that are exquisitely tuned to danger. At the slightest threat, their hearts race, their stress hormones surge and their brains anxiously track the nonverbal cues that might signal the next attack. Because the brain develops in sequence, with more primitive structures stabilizing their connections first, early abuse is particularly damaging. Says Perry: "Experience...
Reiner is one of dozens of celebrities who have joined Hollywood's latest children's crusade. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Henry Winkler have all donated their names, their time and even their money to various kids' causes. Not only did Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw co-found the Children's Action Network, which makes educational films and sponsors immunization campaigns, but Spielberg also chairs the Starbright Foundation, an innovative charity group that deploys entertainment technologies to help ease the suffering of sick children...
...find it rather ironic that TIME chose Netscape's "What's Cool" as the worst Website. You said it is "uncool" for "the software company that virtually controls the Web through its popular browser" to tell us what's hip. Perhaps TIME should look in the mirror? BRUCE DIKHOFER Houston...
...JEAN HOUSTON She helped Hillary "talk" to Eleanor R. so she could "write" her "book...
...Foster '97 of Leverett House and Great Falls, Montana; Mary J. Hahn '97 of Winthrop House and West Nyack, N.Y.; Junne Kamihara '97 of Lowell House and Old Bethpage, N.Y.; Sidhartha R. Sinha '97 of Kirkland House and Tulsa, Ok.; and Emily A. Wang '97 of Leverett House and Houston...