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...hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a 5-year-old's "pencil-holding deficiency," hooked up broadband connections in the treehouse but took down the swing set after the second skinned knee. We hovered over every school, playground and practice field - "helicopter parents," teachers christened us, a phenomenon that spread to parents of all ages, races and regions. Stores began marketing stove-knob covers and "Kinderkords" (also known as leashes; they allow "three full feet of freedom for both you and your child") and Baby Kneepads (as if babies don't come prepadded). The mayor of a Connecticut town agreed...
...soon enough, the escapades of the “Upper C Side”, the group otherwise known as Canaday Cs, spread like, well, gossip. “It’s been growing exponentially,” says Crimson Girl, whose readership has grown to about seventy-five students and whose scope now includes the whole freshman class...
...have this increased mobility, we don’t have to be anchored within the midst of collection with all the pieces spread out,” Fliss says. “It’s exciting. We can show people selections of rare books, music scores and yet that serves as an invitation to bring people in to see the depth of existing collections...
...pretty amazing that [Leah] was able to go from angry about an issue to taking action about an issue in about one week’s time,” said Peter J. Witzler, a Kennedy School student. “She convened a meeting and it spread like wildfire from there...
...them in line for some much needed cash. It also provides an always welcome opportunity for those of us who have banged our spoons on our high chairs about the culpability of the Corps again and again and again to say we told you so. And it could help spread a message to millions of Americans who still think the tragedy of Katrina was the government's response to the disaster rather than the government's creation of the disaster. (See pictures of survivors of Hurricane Katrina...