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Thanks to a shortage of alternatives, every day is a potential "Take Your Sick Child to Work Day." Plenty of employers endorse the practice or look the other way, despite the obvious drawbacks: the lack of pillows and blankies, the hypochondriac in the next office, the difficulty of actually getting anything done. But a handful of companies practicing enlightened self-interest are taking the lead in covering all or part of the cost of other options, including in-home care, stand-alone facilities and day-care centers with adjacent infirmaries. And while such care can be notoriously expensive, the payoffs...
...with a nasty cough. While she took her prescribed asthma medication, her mother reviewed their options. Neither parent could stay home that day. Elizabeth's mother had to be in the lab, and her father was out of town on business. School was risky: although she didn't feel sick and wasn't contagious, Elizabeth sounded sick, and her mother knew from experience that the nurse would probably call for a pickup just before dismissal time...
Every day, according to the Work & Family Connection, a news-and-information clearinghouse in Minnetonka, Minn., some 500,000 American children are sick enough to stay home from school or day care. While some of those kids are seriously ill, a fairly large percentage simply need to be isolated to prevent the spread of minor illnesses such as pinkeye and chicken pox. Or they need one more fever-free day after a bout of flu or strep throat before returning to school or day care. "In a perfect world, you wouldn't give it a thought. You'd stay home...
...views were portrayed. However, in the correct context, my quote does reflect my views. While I uphold the Biblical view that homosexuality is sinful, I do not see it as being in any way different from the sin that is evident in my own life. All sin is sick. The quote, as presented, wrongly implies that homosexuality is somehow different from all other sins...
...Thank God for Elian Gonzalez. Yes, yes, I'm as sick of the very pampered little boy as you are ("Mommy mommy, I want ice cream!" he screams and the next day Ben and Jerry's brings him a lifetime supply), but he thankfully ended a severe news drought. Until last week, Time and Newsweek were resorting to their stock stories - you know, updates of "Is There Really Life on Mars?", "Human Cloning: The Future is Now," "Was Jesus Black?," etc... Every time Anna Kournikova wins a tennis match, her mother and coach make a beeline for the nearest liquor...