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Debates about the efficacy of vegetarianism follow us from cradle to wheelchair. In 1998 child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock, who became a vegetarian late in life, stoked a stir by recommending that children over the age of 2 be raised as vegans, rejecting even milk and eggs. The American Dietetic Association says it is possible to raise kids as vegans but cautions that special care must be taken with nursing infants (who don't develop properly without the nutrients in mother's milk or fortified formula). Other researchers warn that infants breast-fed by vegans have lower levels...
DIED. JOHN CHAMBERS, 78, makeup artist who created the pointy ears for Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock on Star Trek; of diabetes complications; in Los Angeles. Chambers' makeup jobs included the 1968 Planet of the Apes, for which he won an honorary Oscar, and the television shows Lost in Space and The Munsters...
...candidate for 'lehendakari', or president, of the autonomous northern region in the May 13 elections. Most commentators agreed, especially after the PP and the Socialists joined in an informal coalition to dislodge the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose incumbent 'lehendakari', Juan José Ibarretxe, looks a lot like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, and whose oratory is as awkward as Mayor Oreja's is fluid...
Researchers heralded the finding of a mineral in a meteorite from the Red Planet, which they claim could have been made only by a microbe. As forms of life go, microbes rank fairly low. We've been waiting for something that could at least communicate with Spock...
...language," offers the revelation that if your baby looks "like a person falling asleep on a subway," then she's "tired." In many other ways, Hogg's advice sounds obvious. Not only have people like my Aunt Lena been dispensing this kind of wisdom for generations, but also Dr. Spock first published it in Baby and Child Care in 1945. For me, his famous first sentences, "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do," contain more wisdom than a bassinet full of Baby Whisperers...