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...with a rally in Mexico City last week. He drew nearly 100,000 passionate spectators and more than a few resourceful vendors trafficking in Marcos-inspired gear. His demands for better treatment of the nation's Indian population seemed to resonate; his call for Mexico to "stop being an object of shame dressed in the color of money" seemed to go unheeded by souvenir hawkers...
...Hard as it is for parents to watch a toddler in torment, there's not a lot they can do beyond lavishing the child with plenty of loving reassurance and taking a firm but gentle hand when the object of fear - a bath, say, or the doctor - can't be avoided. It's only when extreme fears persist past age seven and significantly begin to affect the child's ability to function that clinicians become concerned. "When young children are doing well despite their fears, we don't intervene," says Phillipson. "When an older child starts to suffer at home...
...That therapeutic involvement is much the same as it would be for an adult phobic: gradually exposing the child to the feared object or experience and teaching him or her, eventually, to live with it. Most of the time, doctors encourage parents of phobic kids to become involved in treatment, attending sessions and walking the child through the hierarchy of exposure - provided they can resist the natural impulse to step in and stop the session when the child starts to grow fearful. "Hard as it is for parents to watch," Phillipson says, "the only way for kids to get around...
...stepfather's .22 rifle and wounded six fellow students at Heritage High School. WARNING SIGNS Solomon told classmates he would "blow up this classroom" and had no reason to live. He was being treated for depression and was teased by a popular sports player whom Solomon believed was the object of his girlfriend's affections...
...would be hypocritical of me to object [to a 24-hour Harvard] on principle," Lewis says, "because that's the one I went...