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Even if Congress moves to restrict the money flow, some experts say, the effect might not be what the reformers hope for. "Almost exactly the same amount would be spent but in different ways," predicts University of Virginia veteran campaign-finance watcher Larry Sabato. Companies, trade groups and unions would fund more grassroots organizing, phone banks, voter-registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach...
When a BASE jumper dies, other BASE jumpers say he has "gone in," as in gone into the ground or gone into a wall. "I'm sick of people going in," says Fillipino. "In the past year, a friend went in on a skydive, another drowned as a result of a BASE jump, another friend went in on a jump, another died in a skydiving-plane crash. You can't escape death, but you don't want to flirt with it either." It may be the need to flirt with death, or at least take extreme chances, that...
...say that mine is all that great a risotto, but of all the bat catchers in St. Paul, I probably make as good a risotto as any of them. The secret, besides lavish administration of butter and cheese, is to rush the rice toward the finish line at high speed and then turn off the heat and coast across. My little girl thinks my risotto is more than good enough, but she is glad for everything we set before her. The chapter in the child manual on finicky eaters does not apply to her: she licks her chops the moment...
...parents like to tell ourselves that children "roll with the punches," but we usually say that so we'll feel better--just before we punch them with a huge life change. Kids aren't any more flexible than we are (why should they be?) and lack the perspective to understand the shifting commitments of grownups. Last year more than 10 million school-age children moved to a new house, a number that is rising with the growing mobility of baby boomers...
Your family will be making the transition for a long time, so don't expect an enthusiastic report from your kids in the first few weeks. Keep checking in regularly and listen carefully to what they say--and to what they don't say. "Don't forget to acknowledge your kids' courage in facing this new situation and tell them you understand it and respect them," Sheras warns. You could also lighten their load by telling your kids about your own first day as the "new kid" at your new job. "Today I couldn't find the bathroom and forgot...