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...brokerage company] JB Oxford is replete with erroneous inferences and inaccuracies [BUSINESS, Dec. 9]. Extensive information provided to your reporter by the company was simply omitted from the story. You referred to [JB Oxford consultant] Irving Kott as "the power behind" the firm who wants "to stay out of sight." The fact is that not the board, management or Kott would describe himself as "the power behind" our company...
...more fundamentally, inadequate care in the pre-K years may affect a child's later ability to learn, limiting it in ways that cannot be offset by the uplifting sight of seeing Mom march off to work. Brain-development research indicates that in the first two years of life, virtually all our vital neural connections are being formed. Other studies show the crucial role that responsive, sensitive and stimulating care plays in forming those synapses. A bad day-care situation, where a child is understimulated for long stretches of time or moved among ever changing caregivers, may cause long-term...
There, eight years later, novelist Atwood takes up her story. Early in her stay Marks had panicked at the sight of a doctor--the same one, she concluded, who had dissected McDermott--and screamed uncontrollably. She was removed to an insane asylum--"mad as a snake," it was said--and subjected to a regime of cold baths and strait waistcoats. She endured this and was returned to the prison. Staying sane here, she says to herself, is like hanging over the edge of a bridge: you aren't moving anywhere, but it takes all your energy. A young doctor visits...
...intellectual currents of Canada a century and a half ago. She is scrupulous in not pretending to know the whole truth of Grace Marks. Who, the author notes, was at last freed from prison after 29 years. And who immigrated to New York State and there disappeared from sight...
...desire to offer women equal rights in the U.S. armed services [NATION, Nov. 25], we seem to have lost sight of the main purpose--to attain difficult military objectives against strong enemies with maximum efficiency and minimum loss of American lives. The armed services have made a good attempt at enlisting both sexes in these goals, but the losses exceed the gains. EDWARD J. KINGSBURY Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts...