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...less than six months ago that County Sheriff John Stone got into trouble for screening for TIME magazine reporter Tim Roche the tapes that Columbine killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made prior to their deadly rampage. After a description of the tapes was published in TIME (parent, of course, of this web site), Stone denied that he gave Roche permission to describe what he saw. Roche says he was never asked not to describe the tapes. The public saw the incident as a display of either Stone's insensitivity, dishonesty or lack of thoroughness in not defining the terms...
...hope we've reached the point where we can be creative enough to conceive of ways to blend the joys and hardships of the home with the rigors of the workplace. I'm a firm believer in the credo that necessity is the mother, or better, the parent, of invention...
Perhaps one problem is the image of the stay-at-home parent. What do we envision when thinking of a mother at home with her kids? Classic suburban life, station wagon and picket fence, husband returning to a clean house and dinner on the table? Instead of asking ourselves whether or not to work, we need to decide how we can make the combination of work and family possible. Many parents, like my mom, can work from home--I always figured that was why fax machines were invented in the first place. Some husbands and wives have worked out schedules...
Aggressive with hunger, the whining chick bites its parent's bill to stimulate her into regurgitating her payload. The adult hunches, retching, pumping out fish eggs and several squid. The chick swallows in seconds what its parent logged 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to get. The chick begs for more. The adult arches her neck and retches again. Nothing comes. We whisper, "What's wrong...
Through the intimate bond between parent and offspring flows the continuity of life itself. That our human trash stream crosses even this sacred bond is evidence of a world wounded and out of round, its relationships disfigured. The albatross's message: consumer culture permeates every watery point on the compass. From sun-bleached coral reefs to icy polar waters, no place, no creature, remains apart...