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...Pasig City, the Philippines As a Christian who believes in the miraculous birth of Jesus, I have deep respect and affection for Joseph and Mary. Their lives were sacrificial and worthy of their great calling. Nevertheless, by focusing on speculations and possibilities about those two worthies, people lose sight of the fact that there is only one King of Kings, and that is Jesus Christ. I believe Joseph and Mary would be the first to cry, "Enough! Worship Jesus." Fran Wheeler Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. The human penchant for telling stories unfettered by facts is remarkable. It is sad that many...
...disturbance. The officers arrived and reported that the individual was being cooperative and would be spending the night. Dec. 19: 11:09 a.m.—An officer observed an individual in Harvard Square, known to the HUPD, who had previously received a warning for trespassing. The officer lost sight of the individual and checked the area with negative results. Dec. 23: 4:00 p.m.—An officer was dispatched to the Botanic Gardens to take a report of suspicious activity. The officer reported that an individual received a harassing phone call from a delivery person...
Christakis explains that the human mind?especially the mind of a baby?is driven by what Ivan Pavlov (of the famous dog) called the orienting reflex. When a baby is confronted with a novel sight or sound, he or she can't help focusing on it. By rapidly changing colors, sounds and motions, videos for children effectively force a baby's brain to stay at attention. If his or her gaze wanders, the action quickly rivets it back to the screen...
...difference between human interaction and even the most sophisticated educational toy is that interpersonal exchanges engage all the senses?sight, sound, smell, taste and, very important, touch. "People tend to forget that children are very tactile and their most sensitive part is their mouth," says David Perlmutter, a neurologist and author of the forthcoming book, Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten. "Babies need to mouth things and to smell, to have rich sensory experiences...
...Incendiary Circumstances traces, over and over, the perfidy of empires and the corruption of most governments, but it never loses sight of individual action and power. And navigating both sides of the shadow lines within him, Ghosh travels to some of the most difficult places on earth to bring their voices back to those in places of seeming comfort. Musing on Sri Lanka, he draws upon the words of Michael Ondaatje, not a colonizer surveying foreign ground, but a homesick exile looking back on the world he misses. Reading to a New York audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares...