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...freed by Iraqis. And the Iraqi government openly disdained the recent offer by Vice President Joe Biden during a visit to Baghdad to help mediate in its conflicts with Kurds and Sunnis. Top military adviser Reese likened the relationship between Iraqi and U.S. soldiers to a "father teaching his kid to ride a bike without training wheels," explaining, "Our hand on the back of the [Iraqis'] seat is holding them back and causing resentment. We need to let go before we both tumble to the ground...
...Hughes showed teenagers that light, with a rose-tinted glow. His Molly trilogy - Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, all starring actual teen Molly Ringwald - mined the emotional convulsions that make every kid feel he or she is the first lonely explorer on the dark side of the moon. In his mid-30s, Hughes got spookily in sync with the swooning narcissism of adolescence: that teachers are torturers; that parents are sweet but don't quite understand; that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien; that I feel all these things...
...hardest talks a doctor can have with a family: how to deal with an overweight kid. By all accounts, it's equally frustrating for pediatrician and parent - a battle that plays out in doctors' offices across the U.S. "My doctor, whom I love and have a lot of respect for, kept saying the same things," Cohn says. He would ask what on earth she had been feeding her daughter and suggest that Molly needed to exercise more and eat less. The Cohns never found that rote advice specific enough to be useful. (Read Laura Blue's Wellness blog on TIME.com...
...such setting, teens establish a predictable social hierarchy, says Tom Dishion, director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, who was not involved with the study. The kids who have behaved worse than others - committing robbery, for instance, vs. smoking cigarettes - earn the most credibility with their peer group, which encourages further bad behavior. "That story [about robbing someone] has a function of making that kid more interesting. He or she gets a lot of attention. [These kids] become higher in the social hierarchy...
...moments he had to eat before appearing on the MSNBC show of is not shared by Capehart's mother Margaret, who calls in two days later to read the riot act - "My son is not a clown, O.K.? ... he's not a clown, he's not a kid at a birthday party where you take pictures and show the family, you know; this is national TV, and I really didn't appreciate it, and it really pissed...