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Until all these things happen, the heaviest lifting will, as always, be left to the family. Perhaps the most powerful medicine a suffering child needs is the educated instincts of a well-informed parent--one who has taken the time to study up on all the pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical options and pick the right ones. There will always be dangers associated with taking too many drugs--and also dangers from taking too few. "Like every other choice you make for your kids," says Chang, "you make right ones and wrong ones." When the health of a child's mind...
...only a religious symbol; it represents 2,000 years of history and culture," he told Time. "Immigrants' cultural and religious identities must be respected, but they must also be expected to follow the established judicial and political system of our country. How can a court side with one Muslim parent over the wishes of [all the school's] Italian parents?" Italian parents may yet get their way. Italy's Education Ministry has appealed the ruling, and a judge has temporarily suspended the original decision, delaying the removal of the crucifix until at least Nov. 19. In France, the case...
Most of us took pains to parent-proof our dorm: no boys under the covers, no beer cans or conspicuous Beirut tables, no condoms, no birth control pills. But what to us appeared innocuous shocked our parents. Even after I explained to my mother that I got the lubricant lying around my room at an assembly on safe contraceptive use, she was confused and uneasy...
...reading this article if Skin were set in the aluminum industry?) But porn is definitely Big Business--estimated at $10 billion a year--and as Skin emphasizes, much of that goes into the coffers of blue-chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck a deal to control. "Certainly," says Leonard dryly, "[Fox] asked us to change the name of the company" in the version...
...managed to avoid embarrassment was the guitar duo of Michael Ramos ’04-’05 and Dan Tinkoff ’04. Recruited from the Harvard Jazz Band and told to put something together, they decided they needed to go with a standard for the parent crowd. Their hackneyed choice was Gershwin’s “I’ve Got Rhythm,” but against all expectations, they did a splendid job with it. They were just two guys onstage making great music and having a great time...