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Sometimes the simplest solutions are the most effective. Six years ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics surprised doctors everywhere by urging that all healthy infants be placed on their sides or backs when they sleep. The physicians' group was responding to reports from Europe that showed that babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to succumb to sudden-infant-death syndrome, also known as crib death, than those who sleep on their stomachs...
...simplest pleasures are often the ones that beguile a child, and who was more beguiling than Shari Lewis, a woman with a demure sock named Lamb Chop (and two other socks named Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy)? Now, that was high-concept. Shari Lewis, who died Sunday of cancer in Los Angeles, was loved by kids from the moment she and her knitted friends first appeared on "Captain Kangaroo" in the '50s until 1963, when puppet-based children's programming gave way to the comic psychedelics of cartoons. Those same kids loved her when she came back in 1992, this...
...couldn't even dream of doing before. The seduction of being online--and this applies to everyone, from novice surfers on AOL to the hardiest hackers on the Web--is that it really does put an awful lot of power in your hands. You can start with the simplest of questions--How do I buy a new sport- utility vehicle?--and step away from your PC in an hour with more information than you might have gathered in a month without a modem. And that information may be better than anything you've ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets...
...from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize. Now, in the second wave, rural people are heading for the cities and the opportunities they offer...
...when he saw them in 1931, christened "mobiles"--the word by which Calder is known. But these motorized pieces were too predictable. Calder's genius was for the unprogrammed--natural, as distinct from mechanical and repetitious motion. What he did best was present metaphors of natural movement in the simplest technical terms. He worked intuitively, balancing things on his finger, manually and without calculation, and above all without power tools...