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...taken seriously. On TV and in movies and magazine ads, the image of fathers over the past generation evolved from the stern, sturdy father who knew best to a helpless Homer Simpson, or some ham-handed galoot confounded by the prospect of changing a diaper. Teachers call parent conferences but only talk to the mothers. When father arrives at the doctor's office with little Betsy, the pediatrician offers instructions to pass along to his wife, the caregiver presumptive. The Census Bureau can document the 70 million mothers age 15 or older in the U.S. but has scant idea...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...
...your very sensitive mind? -Verónica Meersohn, Puerto Montt, ChileIt was something I invented. Although stories like this are occasionally in the newspapers-so I must have read a couple of stories in newspapers about such things. It struck me as peculiarly painful and retched experience for a parent to go through, especially if it is not resolved quickly. One could say bleakly that with the tragedy of a death there is some chance of making some kind of adaptation, but with this the wound is always opened and I really feel for those parents...
...teacher and parent, I give No Child Left Behind (NCLB) a failing grade [June 4]. There is no way to fix a law that operates under the flawed assumption that tests rather than teachers should govern curriculum. Testing is simply a tool for measuring learning in the same way that a thermometer is an instrument for reading temperature. What would happen to the health of a nation if lawmakers tried to force doctors to spend a large portion of their time taking patients' temperatures instead of practicing medicine? The reality of NCLB is that it allows few children...
...arrested for a DUI, was photographed slumped in a car in a stupor, and checked into her second rehab stint in four months. The once lovable (and bankable) child star looked as if she was finally trading the vivacity that first won over audiences in 1998's The Parent Trap for vapidity...