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...putting sole responsibility on parents, says Linn, doesn't address the increasing relentlessness of the marketing they face. Consider Disney's Princesses, a lucrative brand built on sub-par, straight-to-DVD sequels to animated Disney classics like Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Even the "parenting advice" section of Disney's Princesses website entreats mom and dad to "Cuddle up with your little princess and her favorite Disney Princess doll ... as you read her her favorite story." Nowhere does it say what to do if your little princess is throwing a temper tantrum cause...
...working for about 25,000 people who will receive a first notice of foreclosure this year in the seven-county Denver metro area, according to the housing-analytics firm the Genesis Group. That's about half the number of people who could be expected to put their homes up for sale in a normal market. The most distressed neighborhoods are seeing foreclosure rates rivaling those produced during the state's oil and gas bust of the 1980s--except these days, there aren't mass layoffs to blame. Just flat house prices and tighter credit standards, which make it harder...
...recent study shows that these products may be doing more harm than good. Experts at the University of Washington reported early in August that for every hour each day that infants watched the kaleidoscope of changing images and music on these DVDs, they understood an average of seven fewer words than babies who did not use such products. "The assumption is that stimulation is good, so more is better," says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a pediatrician and co-author of the study. "But all the research to date shows there is no such benefit...
...Apart from the long-term health effects of RU-486, some doctors still question the drug's safety in the short term. Between 2003 and 2006, seven women - six in the U.S. and one in Canada - died after using mifepristone together with misoprostol, or misoprostol alone. The two drugs are routinely prescribed in combination; the first terminates the pregnancy, while the second causes uterine contractions and expels it. Most of the women died from infection with a dangerous, rare bacterium called Clostridium sordellii, one of the Clostridium species that may normally live in the vagina of healthy, non-pregnant women...
...same impulse that prompted Killcoyne to organize Underage in the first place. "Me and my friends were really, really obsessed with this band called The Horrors," says the modestly spoken but over-achieving Killcoyne between sets as a DJ at a London record store. "I tried to see them seven or eight times - once in a strip club in Soho - and I couldn't get in. Because they sell alcohol, you have to be 18, and I look really young." Horrified by the thought that The Horrors (they play garage/punk/surf music, in case you were wondering), would be gigging...