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Every doting parent has experienced the special challenges of photographing a baby. Baby isn't very helpful. But when such a photograph is needed for the cover of TIME, the challenges grow exponentially. First, the professional photographer, unlike the parent, has to find a baby. This week's cover photographer, Gordon Munro, consulted Marge McDermott, a New York City talent agent for the carriage set, and told her exactly what he wanted: "A baby who seems to be almost newborn but is also beginning to look like everybody's idea of a baby. And I want...
...citation against the company. He ordered a $50,000 fine for each day that it failed to release the documents, a penalty that could total $27.5 million by the time the grand jury disbands. In June, Marc Rich & Co. secretly sold its U.S. division to a group of the parent company's officers, all foreign nationals. U.S. Attorney Morris Weinberg called the maneuver an "egregious deception" designed to bolster the firm's claim of foreign immunity...
Many mothers believe they can understand different kinds of crying by their babies (a controlled experiment in 1973 showed they could not), and they believe even more strongly that their babies can understand a parent's murmurings. And perhaps they can. Though children do not ordinarily say anything very elaborate before the age of one year, Psychologist Peter Eimas of Brown University has demonstrated that infants as young as one month can differentiate between sounds in virtually any language. They also have a "very sophisticated" ability to organize sounds into various categories. "A baby already knows which sounds communicate...
...though lower than those of most North or East European countries. Suicide in Japan was long surrounded by a romantic and aesthetic aura that arose from the samurai tradition. Now it seems an especially unhappy and unheroic spectacle. A group called the Japan Association for the Prevention of Parent-Child Suicide has been established to try to discourage such tragedies. Some 400 occur every year. In recent weeks a man threw himself and his two children into a river, a family of four drove into a river, a mother strangled her child and then took her own life. There...
Time Inc., the parent company of TIME magazine, has long demonstrated its support for higher education through such activities as direct financial aid and matching grants for employees' gifts to their favorite schools. In part, this is enlightened self-interest: such support helps build the pool of talent on which journalism draws. But over the past seven years the company has also nurtured talent directly. Through Time Inc.'s summer-intern program, headed by Editorial Director Ralph Graves and administered by Personnel's College Relations Manager Katherine Vinton Taylor, a select group of undergraduates spend their vacation...