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...Inside, residents could gather in the "town square," with its beauty salon and ice-cream parlor, or relax by the fire in the living room, or skim through stacks of old National Geographic magazines. "You walk in and say, 'This is a place I would love to have my parent,'" says Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than A Nursing Home? | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...soft-spoken yet articulate John, who declined to give his full name, stays busy raising four children as a single parent and says his main concern for the election is education...

Author: By Louisa H. Cooper, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Campaign Heats Up To Replace Moakley in the Ninth | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...about being a millennial parent is actually new, and hard. Prosperity is a great gift, and these are lucky, peaceful times, but in some respects it is more difficult to be a parent now than when our parents were at the wheel. Today's prosperity has been fueled by people working longer hours than ever, and it is especially challenging to parent creatively and well when you're strung out and exhausted. The extended-family structure that once shared the burdens and reinforced values has frayed. Nothing breeds wretched excess like divorced parents competing with each other and feeling guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...preview of the next Internet hot spot, e-wallets, and features two of the Net's fiercest competitors, Microsoft and AOL Time Warner (parent company of TIME). Starbucks used to let shoppers pay for their purchases by simply providing a credit card and some personal information--like most e-commerce sites. But in May, it made the switch to Passport. Now every time a buyer makes a purchase, his e-mail address and other personal information is sent to Microsoft to be verified--and stored in Microsoft's vast database. Passport, which Microsoft plans to roll out in force this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: The E-Wallet Wars | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...danger of this practice is that it increases the likelihood that puppies will inherit genetic diseases - some 400 have now been identified in dogs. Most such disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal has a good copy of the gene from one parent, it will override a bad copy from the other. But if both parents pass on the same bad gene - which is more likely if mother and father come from the same family - the puppy is sure to acquire the problem. Even if only one recessive gene is passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Flawed Beauty | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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