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...images shift slightly and appear to rotate as the viewer’s perspective changes, giving them a sense of life. Moreover, daguerreotypes possess greater individuality than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
...role in a failed plot to blow up two police cars. Prosecutors allege that Olson and four others also robbed $15,000 from a suburban Sacramento bank one quiet Monday morning in 1975 and shot Opsahl in the stomach as she was depositing her church's collection-plate money...
...those internal cues by the time they reach school age. The reason? Parents, says Leann Birch, a psychologist at Penn State University. "There are things parents do with the best of intentions that turn out to be counterproductive," she says. A familiar example: insisting that children clean their plate, a rule that can teach kids to eat when they are not hungry...
...better technique is to put several items on the plate and get kids to try a bite of each. Birch also recommends that parents learn to serve appropriate portions (two sites that provide excellent guidelines: www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines and www.cspinet.org/kids/index.html) Parents should limit the amount of treats and junk food in the house, she says, including soda and fruit juice. Restricting access to a pantry full of fatty snacks and sweet drinks can make forbidden foods seem all the more desirable...
...children reach adolescence. Restraint and self-control have never been America's strong suits. It's tough for parents to teach teenagers to listen to their bodies, to eat when they are hungry, to taste what they are eating, to eat appropriate portions and to leave food on their plate. Lasting behavioral change cannot be imposed from the outside. These are internal battles and will ultimately have to be fought by the kids themselves, one chubby bulge at a time...