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...should take the money they might spend on items like baby swings (there have been six deaths and nine serious injuries from the popular Graco model) or walkers (more babies are injured in walkers than in any other nursery product), and invest in a crib with a snug-fitting mattress that meets safety guidelines (check cpsc.gov) Otherwise fine cribs are displayed in stores (and in the current Pottery Barn for Kids catalog) filled with quilts and pillows that can suffocate infants younger than age 1. Parents who receive such bedding sets should dress their infant in a warm sleeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Baby Gifts | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...believe they'll come back by the end of the year." At 61, he sees no reason to rethink retirement plans. "I've been through this before, and I believe that the place to be is in the stock market," he says. "You can't put it underneath your mattress." Of course not. But last week that Simmons Beautyrest fund seemed worth considering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Out Below | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Listening to his music, I heard the tunes that I would record if I knew how to play guitar. "The sun goes into her room/and catches the dust in flight/and gently warms the mattress/ that Katie's resting on./Carefully she puts down her viola/next to the kitten on her lap/and when she wants to say its name/she remembers it has none./Uh-huh." I cried a cry that only one Joel Stein can cry for the unnamed cat of another Joel Stein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Excuse to Use My Name 16 Times | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...press corps was sequestered in its own bus behind him. He could be grumpy. Sure, reporters can be superficial and pesky with their ridiculous hypotheticals, and it's hard to scrunch your six-foot-five frame into a coach seat knowing your opponent is stretched out on a soft mattress on Air Force Two, but who said campaigning was a rose garden? One night when the oven wasn't working on his charter plane, Bradley lost his usual composure. When Gore heard about it, he put a white napkin over his arm and served the press dinner on his flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bradley: The Loneliest Face in the Crowd | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

HEARTBREAK HOTELS Warning: more than 80% of cribs in U.S. hotels may be unsafe. Spot checks revealed a variety of hazards, including cribs with soft bedding or adult-size sheets (both known suffocation risks) and cribs with gaps between the mattress and frame that could entrap a baby. Also, about half of mesh-sided cribs checked had holes big enough for infants to get stuck in. What to do? Call ahead and insist that cribs are in good repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

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