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Parenting experts say legal wrangling is to be avoided if at all possible. Mediators and parent educators can help. So can new programs intended to disarm parents in contentious custody situations. Elizabeth Thayer and Jeffrey Zimmerman founded Parents Equally Allied to Co-Parent Effectively (PEACE) in 1998 to help high-conflict parents who are referred by their weary attorneys. So far, the program has trained more than 400 sets of parents in Connecticut and is expanding to other states. PEACE throws out the psychotherapy model of conflict resolution and approaches custody battles as a business. Get rid of the emotions...
...Jeffrey Citron might have been prewired to be a telecom mogul. In 1987 he was a know-it-all high school kid in Staten Island, N.Y., restless and bored with his classes, when an economics teacher organized a stock-picking game. Citron was soon hooked. Just after the market crash of 1987, he bought stock in phone upstart MCI at a few dollars a share. It soared. "I don't know if I was smart or I got lucky, but it was one of the few stocks I picked that brought a profit," Citron recalls. After finishing high school...
...bill limiting interstate trafficking of large predators. Only 20 states ban private ownership of big cats outright. With as many as 7,000 pet tigers thought to be living in the U.S., it is certain that at least some of them will cross paths with humans again. --By Jeffrey Kluger...
CYBERTALK Maverick Jeffrey Citron is shaking up the Web phone business...
...public policy, is an experienced administrator who previously led the University of Pennsylvania’s economics department for five years. After coming to Harvard in fall 2002, he served on the Faculty Oversight Committee that steered the CID after the center’s first director, economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, left Cambridge to lead Columbia’s Earth Institute...