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Recently, my 4-year-old came downstairs clutching in her hands her severed blond ringlets. Why did she cut off her corkscrew curls? "Because no princesses have curly hair," she said...
Scientists know that girls can develop a negative body image at a very young age. In a new study from the University of Central Florida, nearly half of its 3-to-6-year-old participants fretted about being fat. About a third said they would like to change their appearance - adopt a new hair color, for example, or lose weight. (See the top 10 children's books...
...September, when it began offering to take back vehicles from dissatisfied customers, only a tiny fraction of the cars GM has sold have come back to dealers, Docherty notes. "We've sold 300,000, and we've had 163 physical returns," she says, making a pointed comparison with the old GM: "What's different from the old GM is we had a tendency to buy our market share. We're going to earn our market share. That's where the difference is," she says. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Born in Taiwan, Ho was 12 years old when his father lost an eight-year battle against cancer, and his mother was institutionalized for illness shortly thereafter. Adopted by a sympathetic aunt, Ho arrived in the United States at the age of 13, unable to speak English and never having played football. “He’s a great example of the human spirit,” says Coach Tim L. Murphy, Head Coach for Harvard Football. “What are the odds that a kid who lands in the United States basically as an orphan with...
...research, compiled with the help of locals in Kunduz, only five Taliban fighters were at the scene. But amid conflicting reports from the Afghan government, local officials and leaked German military reports, it's still not clear how many Afghans died. Popal says he has met a 30-year-old Afghan woman who lost her husband and father in the raid and now has to look after her six daughters by herself. "My clients are furious that German forces ordered the Kunduz air strike. They feel very disappointed," says Popal. "They see German troops as murderers, just as American soldiers...