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Sometimes all babies need is a little??rocking to fall asleep. The Caring Cot, created by an English industrial designer, is a motorized crib that rocks for about a minute if the baby in it cries for 30 sec. If the baby doesn't stop after about 5 min., a signal is sent to the parents via remote. A sensor goes off if the room gets too hot or cold. And for parents fearful of studden infant death syndrome, a motion detector indicates if the baby has stopped moving for too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Kid Friendly | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

That encouragement convinced Fred Skinner that he should become a writer. The decision, he says, was "disastrous." Recalling those "dark years," living first at home with his family and then in New York's Greenwich Village, he admits that he frittered away his time, read aimlessly, wrote very little???"and thought about seeing a psychiatrist." In his own words, he "failed as a writer" because he "had nothing important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Evans discerned "an impulsive, reckless dissatisfaction with what we are?and a desperate outcry for what we could be once again." He noted that "our persistent centralization of government has accomplished little???except the progressive immobilization of state governments and the destruction of local solutions." One example is the welfare system, which, he said, has succeeded only in destroying pride and incentive. Observed Evans: "The first priority of the U.S. is the resolution of our internal conflict?the recognition that if we cannot unite our own nation, then we cannot preserve the hope of others." But that, he added carefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Charles appears to be temporarily out of a job, following his retirement as Governor of Nebraska. William has been conducting Sunday School services every Sunday out of doors in Royal Palm Park, Miami. For this he receives, presumably, no?or little???pay. Operating at Miami, there is, however, a concern known as the Coral Gables Miami Riviera Co.?needless to say, realtors. This concern has "developed 4,000 acres and recently purchased 6,000 acres more for "development" at a publicly estimated cost of $100,000,000. In connection with this development, there is a "Venetian Casino," containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: The Bryans ad Interim | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Once I let George step a little???permitted him to make a neat showing. That was the day a Negro musical show played in Great Falls, and the entire cast came out to see what George could do. I let George do it that afternoon so as to please his guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modest Jack | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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