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...other hand," Allen says, "education is highly valued in the American Dream, and education can transcend inner-city violence, guns, substance abuse and single-parent families...
...area where over 30 percent of children live in single-parent families, the center takes on the role of parent by sponsoring Friday night dinners...
...says the children mainly come from working and single-parent families. Parents want their children to partake of the center's musical and dancing classes, she says...
...Parent company Philip Morris, whose price cuts on Marlboros were monumentally successful, can well afford the gamble with cereal. A $53 billion packaged-goods powerhouse, Philip Morris is larger than Kellogg ($7 billion) and General Mills ($8.3 billion) combined. Cereal accounts for a mere 2.2% of sales and about 2.1% of operating profits, so the company can easily offset any losses elsewhere. For instance, it jacked up its cigarette prices 4' a pack earlier this month, a move expected to recapture some of the revenue losses from Post cereals. Just last week Philip Morris said its first-quarter profit rose...
What could lead a parent to such shocking behavior? Authorities believe Kathleen Bush suffers from a variant of Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder that impels people to feign or induce illness in a twisted bid for attention. In Munchausen by proxy, parents may injure their children--smothering them with pillows, injecting them with poisons, mixing blood in their urine--in order to draw praise for their dedicated nursing of their offspring...