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...pain...The pain Pat and the children would have had because of what happened." He testified that the porcupine story was concocted because, as a newcomer and the only Jew in town, he did not feel he would be believed. Last Wednesday the defense presented the Dillons' former baby sitter, Cindy Klein, who testified that Dillon "told me he was going to take Dr. Scher up to his hunting cabin ... and kill him." She said she had kept quiet at the time because her mother did not want her involved in the case. A defense pathologist added that the autopsy...
...worry about them when they wander into the world of adult television, with its sex and violence and sass. But in reality, prime time provides only about five violent acts an hour, while the Saturday-morning baby sitter offers children about 26 such acts an hour. Studies have shown that the more violence children watch, the more likely they are to act aggressively. A child watches more than 100,000 acts of violence on television before he or she is finished with elementary school, according to the American Psychological Association...
...Reggi Marder, Terri Bersohn and some other mothers in Evanston, Ill., decided to organize a TV Tuneout Week for their school. "We weren't saying TV was bad," says Marder, a working mother of three, "but we realized that it's very easy to use television as a baby sitter, and we wanted people to think about these things." The first tuneout week unfortunately coincided with both a nasty cold snap and sweeps week but, lo and behold, the local community center offered free ice skating, the ymca set up an evening swim, a nearby museum offered free programs...
...convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes in his Garden. Instead, he breaks the Kennedy-clan mantra of loyalty no matter what the crime by observing that cousin Joseph, who tried to annul his first marriage, and cousin Michael, who dallied with the baby-sitter, had become the "poster boys for bad behavior." Being just a poster boy, after all, is so much seemlier...
...soul, it seems there are more and more strange souls out there. Custom-designed soft contact lenses have made irises the latest accessory. "It's a statement," says California optometrist Richard Silver, who designed Schwarzenegger's cool orbs for Batman & Robin. ("These make the Terminator look like a baby sitter," Arnold boasted.) The painted lenses are costly ($800 and up), must be professionally prescribed and fitted, and are not readily available because of FDA restrictions...