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...scandal that has already cost the Roman Catholic Church dearly in moral authority is beginning to take a serious economic toll. In a landmark agreement in Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades in church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan...
...Monday, she made another landmark pass: she passed Jessica Gelman ’97 to become Harvard’s all-time leader in assists with 486 for her career...
...sociologists and family-health specialists have posited that the wrenching act of divorce and its aftermath leave scars that can linger--in the afflicted children, throughout adolescence and into adulthood. This theory, buttressed by Wallerstein's 2000 best seller, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study, helped explain so many ills--depression, juvenile delinquency, poor grades--even as it justified a flourishing victim-and-caregiver industry...
Disabled-rights advocates have long been reluctant to reopen the landmark law, knowing that to do so would subject it to renewed attack by employers. But the Toyota case "should be a wake-up call to Congress," said Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor who worked for the A.D.A.'s passage, because many workers whom Congress intended to cover can't fit into the shrinking space the court has now created: they must prove they are disabled, in the court's eyes, but also show they are qualified to hold a job with reasonable accommodation. Business cheered last week...
...landmark study published in 1999, Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician at Stanford University, compared the TV habits and weights of two groups of third- and fourth-graders. Half the kids, most of whom were of normal weight, attended classes that taught them how to monitor their television and computer time and to replace it with other activities. At the end of the year, kids in the special program had gained an average of 2 lbs. less than the control group. Obesity experts recommend that parents remove the television from their children's rooms and set strict limits on time spent...