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...avoided. By all accounts, it was not the ideal decision for Attorney General Janet Reno, who repeatedly extended deadlines for the Gonzalez family. But Elian's relatives showed no intention of ever turning over the boy to his father, even though immigration law clearly gives custody to the surviving parent. While negotiations stalled, a team of expert psychologists and pediatricians charged by the government to monitor Elian's health concluded that the boy would suffer tremendous emotional strain if he was not returned to his father. Even more troubling was a video released by the relatives that showed Elian saying...
That method seemed to do the trick last week in Lake Station, Ind., where a parent's call helped school officials head off an alleged plot by three first- grade girls to kill a classmate. "The answer is not going to come from just throwing something up on the computer," says Bill Modzeleski, head of the government's school-safety programs. "It's got to come from the teachers in classrooms who really know the problem kids...
Bellow understands that being a new parent at his age raises an inevitable if unstated concern, which he proceeds to address: "Well, my wife won't be lonely when I die. She'll have somebody." He also knows that fathering a child in his 80s has spurred considerable amazement among strangers and even his friends: "They try to kid me, but I say, 'Practice makes perfect...
...morning last winter, a first-grader named Elizabeth awoke with a nasty cough. While she took her prescribed asthma medication, her mother reviewed their options. Neither parent could stay home that day. Elizabeth's mother had to be in the lab, and her father was out of town on business. School was risky: although she didn't feel sick and wasn't contagious, Elizabeth sounded sick, and her mother knew from experience that the nurse would probably call for a pickup just before dismissal time...
According to Johnson, all the best facilities combined can accommodate just a few thousand of those sick kids per day. So what happens to the rest? Many of those who can't stay home or go to work with a parent wind up with a helpful friend or relative. And while it's tough to sneak even mildly ill babies and toddlers into day care, every parent knows a little cough suppressant and Tylenol can work wonders for school-age children. Worst of all, thousands of older sick kids stay home alone...