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...parent's worst nightmare. And for Dr. Stephen and Elizabeth Alderman, it came in the midst of what seemed like a dream. The Aldermans and their three kids, Jeffrey, 31, Jane, 28, and Peter, 25, as well as Jeffrey's wife Tobey, were vacationing in the Provence region of France in September to celebrate Stephen's 60th birthday. Peter, who worked in the financial-services division of Bloomberg L.P., returned to the U.S. on Sept. 8 to prepare for a conference that was being held at Windows on the World, on the 106th floor of 1 World Trade Center...
...especially sophisticated mind; the attacker(s) were apparently at least dumb enough to believe that people like Tom Brokaw and Tom Daschle open their own mail. (You have to wonder, in fact, if some moron didn't target a group of supermarket tabloids in Florida simply because the parent company's name was American Media - look! it's the headquarters of the American media!) One of the many offenses of terrorism: it gives tremendous power to the ignorant...
...Ridge has the square-jawed profile and can-do resume--blue-collar background, Harvard, staff sergeant in Vietnam--to reassure even the most jittery parent contemplating a family vacation in Orlando. Ridge will need all that and more. He has not yet assumed his new post, which does not require a Senate vote. Officials have "red tagged" his security clearance, hoping he can get the O.K. in two weeks, not the eight months that some Administration officials have been waiting. In a series of White House meetings this week, Ridge started to divide his responsibilities into three baskets. The first...
...thing. But the issue is far more complicated than that. In an era in which sexual mores are ever changing, parents are being realistic in making rules for their kids concerning sex, wherever it may take place. Certainly, kids are active. More than half of the nation's 17-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according to a 1999 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. And young couples are living together in far greater numbers than their boomer parents did before marriage. As families navigate this sensitive and often embarrassing terrain--neither child nor parent relishes the thought...
...usual, parents and kids are almost always on a different schedule in the sphere of rulemaking. Says Deborah Roffman, author of Sex and Sensibility: The Thinking Parent's Guide to Talking Sense About Sex: "As parents, we have to be able to express our values clearly, what we value and why. And we have to help our kids clarify their own values." Roffman says parents should not step outside their own personal comfort zone to accommodate kids. "I see parents all the time who say, 'I know they're going to do it anyway, so I might as well just...