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...Instead of teaching kids to find a police officer, security guard or salesperson if they're lost and scared, instruct them to find a mom, which generally means someone with a stroller or a child in tow. Police officers and clerks are scarce when you need them, and De Becker says women are more likely than men to stop to help lost children and stay with them until they are found...
...boy’s father, seeing his son’s critical state, put out a call for help over ham radio. For nine hours, Hirschman used the radio to instruct the father how to provide medical assistance—aid that helped bring the boy back from the brink of death...
...long as John Paul II is able to speak (or write) coherently, he can fulfill his responsibility to direct the church and instruct his flock [LETTER FROM THE VATICAN, April 8]. Whether he can stand up for two hours to serve as the chief celebrant at Mass or stoop to wash 24 feet is beside the point. Ceremonial functions, while certainly important, are not an essential part of the office. So idle speculation about whether John Paul II is fit to be Pope or whether he should retire is just that: idle speculation. RON SAMUELS Studio City, Calif...
According to Fitzsimmons, there are now guide books that instruct students on how to get noticed in the application process, which is often viewed as impersonal...
There's really no reason to get agitated about Britney's generic music or dreadful new film. Her primary function is not musical or cinematic but educational: to instruct girls in the complex lessons of peer envy and to get 12-year-old boys on the fast track to concupiscence. Similarly, Crossroads, whose $10 million budget was put up by Spears' label, is less a movie than a multimedia branding, an extension of the Britney franchise--a marketing tool, exactly like the singer's Pepsi spots, though without their craft, verve or production values...