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...Harvard Medical School who has written a number of books on parenting. Unstructured play encourages independent thinking and allows the young to negotiate their relationships with their peers, but kids ages 3 to 12 spent only 12 hours a week engaged in it. Brazelton warns, "If we don't pay attention to this, we're going to create obsessive-compulsive people...
Giselle Lopez, 17, of New York City, racked up $2,000 in debt on her first credit card. Her parents refused to pay, so Giselle got a job to pay it off slowly herself. "Now, every time I use it, I know that it comes from my own pocket," Giselle says. "That gives me a sense of responsibility for my actions...
...consumers. These products are not regulated in the U.S. nearly as strictly as over-the-counter drugs or even foods--in sharp contrast to countries like Germany, where the government holds companies to strict standards for ingredients and manufacturing. Experts say that while the top U.S. and European manufacturers pay close attention to the safety, effectiveness and consistency of their products, parts of the industry resemble a Wild West boomtown, where some 800 lightly regulated U.S. companies compete ferociously with fly-by-night hucksters. "When you open a bottle of nutritional supplements, you don't know what's inside," says...
...waste laced with mercury to South Africa without notifying the EPA, as required by law. Last March, on the third day of what was expected to be a three-week trial, the company signed a consent agreement to settle the case. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Borden Chemicals agreed to pay a fine of $3.6 million--the largest in Louisiana history. The company also consented to spend $3 million to clean up groundwater contamination and stop injecting waste into underground storage wells, and to donate $400,000 for equipment for local emergency response units...
...weep for Borden Chemicals. It was able to pay the fine with just a couple of years' savings from abated taxes. For over the past decade, while the plant has been fouling the land, water and air in Louisiana, the state has excused the company from paying $15 million in property taxes as part of just one of its corporate-welfare programs. A Borden spokesman said even with the exemption, the tax the company pays in Louisiana is "about average" for Southern states. Without the exemption, he says, Louisiana would no longer be "competitive as far as trying to attract...