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...found a father and son raking the front yard. "I'm voting for McCain," the father told us. But his 19-year-old son, a college student home for the weekend, told us he plans to send in his absentee ballot for Obama. His reason? "Palin's a retard," he said. As for the lady of the house? McCain, the man said. "She has to live here. The kids I can kick...
...weight of his responsibilities, Ares finds himself totally alone: isolated from his brother, who barely acknowledges his presence; isolated from his mother, who is busy with a rocky relationship and another pregnancy; isolated from his classmates, who think of him as the “brother of the retard;” isolated from other adults who criticize his mother’s parenting. In an effort to find himself, Ares experiments with rebellion and turns to a new friendship with Kevin, a boy just released from a juvenile rehabilitation center. Ultimately, Kevin ends up dead and Ares takes...
Long-distance romances can draw out for years. But Laura Stafford, a professor of interpersonal communication at Ohio State University, says that's partly because the distance can retard the development of the relationship, extending the honeymoon period and delaying the inevitable friction of integrating lives. "We all do a certain amount of impression management" at the beginning of a romance, says Stafford. "But in a long-distance relationship, you may always have your makeup on. You avoid conflict no matter what...
...dross regularly garner more success than Mr. Imus. Take the example of his longtime rival and colleague Howard Stern, who inked a 500 million dollar contract with Sirius Radio for five years of gallivanting with porn stars and teasing a handicapped man he calls “Gary the Retard.” Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh made his name when he referred to the NFL as “the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons,” among a litany of other pigheaded observations...
...simple thing, but it can have a major impact on a child's health," says Unicef's Dooley. Simple remedies such as oral rehydration and pit latrines don't make the world's headlines. Yet recurrent bouts of diarrhea not only disrupt a child's schooling, but also retard physical development as vital nutrients are continually flushed out of the body. One ray of hope: preliminary studies suggest that zinc supplements protect the intestine's lining and significantly reduce the duration of diarrhea episodes as well as the risk of recurrence. At ICDDR's field research center southeast of Dhaka...