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...have delayed parenthood to pursue their careers have a special problem with nitpicking: by the time the kids are old enough to bring lice home, the aging parents are often too blind to see the nits. Reading glasses or a good magnifying glass can help. Meanwhile, Dr. Sydney Spiesel, a researcher at Yale, is developing a "nit detector"--a shampoo containing Blankophor, which he says will adhere to the lice and nits and make them visible under ultraviolet light. He plans to market the shampoo and a black light together, making the nitpicking process "Fun!" he says...
...have delayed parenthood to pursue their careers have a special problem with nitpicking: by the time the kids are old enough to bring lice home, the aging parents are often too blind to see the nits. Reading glasses or a good magnifying glass can help. Meanwhile, Dr. Sydney Spiesel, a researcher at Yale, is developing a "nit detector" - a shampoo containing Blankophor, which he says will adhere to the lice and nits and make them visible under ultraviolet light. He plans to market the shampoo and a black light together, making the nitpicking process "Fun!" he says...
Maybe Dr. Spiesel, a professor at Yale University School of Medicine, could be recognized by the PTA. There ought to be a way to honor the person who each year has done the most for lightening the load of parents--an award for achievements like figuring out how to replace all the buckles and zippers and snaps on children's snowsuits with Velcro...
...Spiesel's achievement is of Velcro-on-snowsuits magnitude. Think of a mother executing nits one by one as she combs out her second-grader's hair. She knows she's in for a 45-min. search-and-destroy mission. She's irritated by the knowledge that she's bound to miss a few of the tiny things and will have to go through the entire process again in a couple of days. Now think of the second-grader's hair washed in Dr. Spiesel's shampoo, which was developed in response to a head-lice epidemic...
...know that some people on the left might oppose an award to Dr. Spiesel on the ground that an advancement in fighting head lice is basically a service to the rich, the medical equivalent of a Republican tax-cut plan. Dr. Spiesel himself has acknowledged that although head lice were formerly associated with poor people who couldn't afford proper hygiene, "these days, head lice seem to especially favor wealthier people...