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...take responsibility for themselves; the change in the drinking laws is a necessary step toward shifting the burden of responsibility from the state to the community. Danny Mermel London In other times, youths used to rebel against society and parents by smoking joints or taking drugs. Nowadays they prefer alcohol. I think the French are quite right: instead of forbidding alcohol consumption or punishing their children for imbibing, parents should try to show that alcohol can be healthful if consumed moderately. Parents should sit down with their children, drink some wine or whatever they prefer and show that alcohol...
...bother a colleague. In some offices, she says, "workers wear colored hats to signify when they do and do not want to be interrupted." Another simple trick, suggests Spira, is to leave more explicit instructions on e-mail "away messages" and answering machines about how and when you prefer to be interrupted...
...cognitive, emotional and physical development," says Lise Eliot, a neuroscientist at Chicago Medical School and author of What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life. "But the good news is none of this costs any money. Babies prefer humans over anything inanimate...
...beneath all those grand ambitions, there is another force at work: they get a kick out of sharing these pilgrimages as a couple--talking with transgendered sex workers in India or women who start businesses with micro loans in Bangladesh. In these situations, they prefer it if people don't know who they are. "We're just people from the moon, as far as they know," says Bill. Later, they spend hours talking about everything they've seen. Says Melinda: "That's a huge side benefit. We love doing this together...
...annuity basis, beginning at age 62. The existing 12.4 percent payroll tax would remain untouched. According to the authors, the benefit reductions and revenue increases would contribute, in roughly equal amounts, toward eliminating the funding gap. This would help make it a compromise between Democrats, who traditionally prefer revenue increases, and Republicans, who traditionally prefer benefit cuts. “We look at our plan as starting in the center, and spreading outward to build as large a coalition as we can,” said Samwick. But the authors also acknowledged that real political difficulties remain. Making...