Word: sons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auction. Or the Houston man who learned that although his oil painting of the Titanic, purchased in England decades ago, was worthless, the menu pasted on the back was an original from a last meal on the ship, worth close to $100,000. (It had been owned by the son of a surviving crew member. The doomed dined on grilled mutton chops...
...want to circumcise your son for religious, personal or cultural reasons, fine. If you don't, that's fine too. The pediatricians' group is adamant, however, in saying no boy should be circumcised without adequate pain relief. Perhaps 45% of U.S. circumcisions are still carried out without analgesia...
...short, medical considerations shouldn't be the parents' primary concern when deciding whether or not to circumcise their son. Health benefits do exist, but they aren't great enough to override any personal preferences...
...Carre stakes his complex and typically elliptical tale, with frequent shifts between time frames and narrative voices, on a fairly basic premise: the tangled relationship between a son and his father. Oliver Single begins as the heir apparent to the legendary Tiger Single, founder of the House of Single, a high-flying London financial firm renamed Single & Single after Oliver, law degree in hand, is brought aboard by his father. The son's initiation into the family business goes smoothly until the firm takes on some new clients: Yevgeny and Mikhail Orlov, Russian brothers who offer Tiger and his son...
...many are visiting Wilder territory in person. Claudia Brierre of Tulsa, Okla., is reading the books with her son Will, 6, and daughter Catharine, 8, and has begun taking them to the real-life settings. "I would rather give my children an appreciation of our country's history than take them to Disney World," she says. "These memories will stick with them the rest of their lives...