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...ingenious plan. My family of four, vacationing in San Diego, would use Christmas Day as a break from our sight-seeing and relative-visiting to make the two hour jaunt up the California coast to lovely Anaheim for a day at Disneyland: the world capitol of all that is good, clean and fun. Jewish as we are, there would be no spiritual toll for using the holiday's all-consuming character to our benefit; there would be no religious conflict in taking advantage of the empty roads and short lines for the Disney attractions. Equally important, the trip would provide...
...Movement rebels imprisoned in Peru under any circumstances, he allowed this week that he would consider granting safe passage out of the country to the rebels if they release the captives and lay down their weapons. With Tuesday's renewed demands, there seems to be no easy end in sight...
INCOMPATIBLE COUPLE OF THE YEAR: Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu, with more battles in sight and no legal divorce available...
...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...