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...well-regarded Penn State University study published in 1996. Later research, published last year, found that even adolescents, who have usually begun going their own way, devote at least 10 hours a week to activities with their siblings--a lot when you consider that with school, sports, dates and sleep, there aren't a whole lot of free hours left. In Mexican-American homes, where broods are generally bigger, the figure tops 17 hours...
...Sleep Sack REI's Kindercone, $59, is designed for kids, with pockets for toys and a flashlight as well as extra clothes--which then make a cozy pillow. The insulated bag can be unzipped and opened flat so you can also use it as a quilt...
...Teacher of General (and indefinable) Studies, the character Hector draws heavily from Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”; an old-fashioned academic armed with the appropriate quotations for any circumstance. He does not lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...
...Thanks to McDonald's, Holiday Inn, and Howard Johnson, one suddenly could travel coast-to-coast and eat from an unvarying menu and sleep in the same room every night. As Alphonse Karr might have mused, "The more one travels, the more one stays in the same place." Indeed, by now, the Interstates' uniform signages - emblazoned with the system's own red-white-and-blue shield icon; others proclaiming speed-limits and upcoming exits; and still others touting McDonald's, Best Western, Exxon, BP, and Wendy's - float through our subconscious like so many branded Jungian archetypes...
...Europe, and the Panama Canal opens to traffic. The U.S. enters World War I in April 1917; 15 months later, T.R.'s son Quentin, 20, is killed in France. Devastated, Roosevelt declines to run (again) for Governor of New York. On Jan. 6, 1919, T.R. dies in his sleep at Sagamore Hill of a coronary embolism. He is only...