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...demand keeps growing - three-quarters of a million children attended some form of care in 2004, 10,000 more than the year before. Pregnant women are urged to enrol their unborn offspring for a day-care place a year or two ahead of time - often paying a fee to join a waiting list - only to be told by apologetic center staff, "We'll let you know." And it's getting more and more expensive: the price of child care rose almost 10% in the year to September 2005. At 35, Melbourne mother Simone is keenly aware that time's running...
...every day-care center has waiting lists for every age group, and in some areas a lack of planning has even produced too many places. Also a problem are duplicate applications, caused when panicked parents join several different waiting lists. To reduce confusion, some councils in Sydney share centrally compiled lists of applicants; a similar scheme will soon be tried in Victoria. But where shortages exist, they're often dire, particularly for babies and toddlers, who need more intensive - and expensive - care than older children. In the Melbourne bayside municipality of Port Phillip, 1,935 children are on the waiting...
...Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of more than two dozen law schools opposed to the Solomon Amendment, argued that the Pentagon policy violated the schools’ right to free speech and free association. Harvard declined to join FAIR, but the University filed a friend-of-the-court brief backing FAIR's case last fall...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
...result is a "balance between cuteness and blackness," says Tokyo-based design team Devilrobots. The toys can be unsettling. You start to imagine what Budnitz describes as their "complex emotional state." A rabbit-shaped figure with the face of Lenin and his own copy of Das Kapital will join such Dunnys as a smoking Mao Zedong and "Mrs. Mao" on April 27. Fastidious refrigerator natives, Ice-Bots use crampons and ice picks to navigate your freezer. "Purely happy is completely uninteresting," Budnitz says. "Cute and mad, cute and scary are interesting." At Kidrobot's three boutiques, the toys range...