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...Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by Rod Paul/Boston
...events with $41.65 million in prize money today. The future of senior tennis looks just as bright, with crowd pleasers such as Jimmy Connors, 45, and Bjorn Borg, 41, attracting fans to the Nuveen Tour for players 35 or over, and globe-trotting grand masters like Rod Laver, 59, and Ken Rosewall, 62, continuing to dazzle with their skills...
Soros did his lightning-rod act again last month, giving $1 million to the Tides Foundation in San Francisco to finance needle exchanges for addicts. More than a third of new AIDS cases are related to contaminated needles. To him, needle exchange is a no-brainer of an issue: it saves lives. Yet federal funding for needle exchanges is still prohibited...
...YORK: To spank or not to spank? That is the question parents with unruly children have been asking themselves for years. According to recent polls, two- thirds of the nation's pediatricians say yes ? the occasional whupping might transform disruptive brats into quiet little angels. But while the rod may encourage obedience, researchers at Fordham University now claim spanking may lower a child...
...were given standard IQ tests at one and three years of age. According to the researchers, the IQ scores of girls who received "high levels of harsh discipline" at 12 and 36 months were about eight points lower than girls of the same age who were spared the rod. Boys in the same age group showed similar IQ reductions after being spanked or scolded, but not to the same extent as girls, the study found. An even worse effect was found from a lack of maternal warmth, which when combined with beatings makes your child even less likely to join...