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...increase demanded by the striking workers really isn?t much more than the inflation rate," says TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The government may be forced to compromise and tighten the belt in other areas, such as military expenditure." Absent the moral authority of retired president Nelson Mandela, Mbeki may find it difficult to resolve the mounting tide of labor conflicts and avert major social disruption. But at least the government is leading by example: While it?s offering public sector employees a 6.3 percent increase, members of parliament and government officials will receive only a 4 percent...
Surprisingly, most of his targets agree with Bruer--to a point. "It's quite true," says Dr. Charles Nelson, a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, "that there aren't any studies looking at brain development in young children." And Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, an educational organization whose advice-laden website is a target of Bruer's ire, acknowledges that "there have been some who have stretched the science...
...just because sensory and emotional deprivation leads to damage, argues Bruer, that doesn't mean extra stimulation will make a child better than normal. And on that too just about everyone agrees. "The assumption that if a normally stimulating environment is good, a 'superenvironment' must be better," says Nelson, "has no basis in science." In fact, argues Melmed, it can be worse: "If you try to give your baby more stimulation than she can handle, she'll shut down...
JULY 18 Join family members of former South African President Nelson Mandela to celebrate his 81st birthday...
...visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries are run by workers descended from former slaves. Such black entrepreneurship...