Word: notions
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Even if some sort of relationship is maintained, the notion of cooperative adoption may raise unsettling questions for the children. In an era of divorce, remarriage and yours-mine-and-ours families, it is perhaps less anomalous than it once was to contend with two sets of parents. Still, what does the child call this woman who comes to visit and sends the birthday cards? What is he or she to think when that person later has children she decides to keep? Worst of all, what happens if the birth mother, having endeared herself to her child, suddenly stops coming...
Nothing is more appealing than a simple solution to a complex problem. That is why so many people have eagerly embraced the notion that eating right can prevent heart disease. Following the advice of the U.S. Government's National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), millions of Americans have lined up to get their cholesterol checked and have purged their refrigerators of fatty foods. Food manufacturers are pumping up sales simply by touting their products as "cholesterol free." Rarely has a health campaign so quickly become a national obsession...
What if the spirit doesn't hit? We can't afford to wait if we want to survive. While we are waiting for this sea change of attitude, we could pretend -- a notion that sounds more whimsical than it is. Scientists have found that certain actions have a feedback effect on the actor. Smilers actually feel happier; debaters become enamored of their own arguments; a good salesman sells himself first. You become what you pretend to be. We can pretend to be unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned...
...effect she began her personal research in 1979 when she and her husband Ernest adopted Seth, an infant from Chile, then Eve from South Korea in 1981. "We wanted this week's story to convey how much the dynamics of adoption are changing," Gilman says. "Our whole notion of who can be a parent and who can be adopted is dramatically different...
...notion of indexing gains to inflation -- to tax only "real" gains -- would add a whole new level of complication in computing taxes. And is it fair? It insulates those with real estate and stocks and fine art from the effects of inflation but not those without appreciable assets, whom inflation hits hardest. (Homeowners already have big tax breaks. They're allowed to roll gains tax-free from one home to the next and, at 55, avoid tax altogether on $125,000.) Furthermore, insulating voters from inflation makes them more tolerant of it and thus its rise more likely...