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...lack of siblings," says Falbo. Parents of only children are ingenious in developing family structures to provide that contact. A child's best friend can often be co-opted as an honorary sibling; or the extended family can be plundered for playmates and more adult role models. Professor Melanie Howard, the director of the London-based consultancy, the Future Foundation, describes what results as "analogue family." "You may find that friends, godparents and the like become absorbed into the family structure," she says. "The nature of family is becoming much more networked and loose." Nuclear Explosions Ironically, Maggie Alderson...
...heard the story: the Netroots, the Democratic Party's equivalent of a punk garage band--edgy, loud and antiauthoritarian--are suddenly on the verge of the big time. The gang of liberal bloggers and online activists who helped raise millions of dollars for Howard Dean's presidential campaign two years ago are now said to be Democratic kingmakers. Last month in Connecticut, they fanned anti-incumbent and antiwar flames and were widely credited with the primary defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman, leading him to run as an independent. After they relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious...
...letter sent yesterday from Yau’s attorney, Howard M. Cooper, to the article’s authors and fact-checker charged that “false and defamatory” statements as well as “sensationalized quotes” had “unfairly soiled the reputation of an individual who has spent his entire life earning, justifiably and on the merits, a reputation as one of the foremost mathematicians of our time...
...news and unwanted publicity. The mysterious death of sniper Private Jake Kovco in his room in a Baghdad barracks in April-and a bungle over the repatriation of his body-was a private tragedy that escalated into a public-relations disaster for the Australian Defence Force and the Howard government. Now the ADF's image is under assault again. Last month, a man claiming to have served eight years in the Australian Army published on Youtube.com pictures and videos that appear to feature serious wrongdoing by Diggers during 2004 and 2005 operations in Baghdad...
...caged bird doesn't sing unless it has a microphone. B) Even when you're Maya Angelou, you do what Oprah wants. C) Howard Stern's dwindling audience has to go somewhere. D) She wants to talk trash about that know-nothing hussy Dr. Laura...