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...QUANDARY Babies who sleep on their back or side take longer to learn to roll over than kids who sleep on their stomach. But stomach sleeping can be a problem too: the position is linked with sudden-infant-death syndrome...
...handing Hong Kong over to the People's Republic of China leaves the West feeling guilty, ignoble and very anxious. In those 67 prior cases, the world's greatest modern empire was setting free its territories to be democratic, at least in theory. What the West cannot quite stomach this time is that the stunningly prosperous enclave of Hong Kong, home to more than 6 million Chinese, most of whom fled or whose parents fled the mainland since the 1940s red revolution, is being given into communist hands. This is the era of democracy; we are supposed to have...
...transfer, was put in charge of a complete restructuring of the OIT--including the termination of 93 employees--because of his negotiation abilities and his talent in handling rough issues such as this one, a source said. Then-vice president of finance Alan J. Proctor was unable to stomach the administrative drudgery necessary to construct compromise in Harvard's terminally decentralized environment...
DIED. MILDRED KERR BUSH, 12, a.k.a. Millie, the tell-all First Pooch, who "penned" the inside scoop on her master's presidency; after being put to sleep owing to a stomach ailment; in Kennebunkport, Maine. Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush (1990) was a best seller for more than half a year...
DIED. VIRGILIO BARCO, 75, Colombian President whose social reforms were undercut by his unrelenting war against cocaine barons; of stomach cancer; in Bogota. A former mayor, the owlish-eyed, professorial Barco stammered his way to the presidential palace in 1986. With neither flair nor fanfare, he hunkered down to combat poverty and drugs until his administration was overrun by vengeful cartels...