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...general, I hasten to say, I'm a sucker for baby pictures. If I run into someone who has a small child and does not display pictures instantly, I immediately get suspicious. "Has the kid turned mean and ugly, or what?" I ask. Newborns, though, are quite a different matter. To put this as delicately as I can, newborn babies are not always beautiful...
...regret your answer almost instantly. Prediction can be a sucker's game; appreciation is where it's really at. You like Rah's music, that you know. She seems true to her roots--you saw that up close. The glossy photos in perfumy magazines, the Hype Williams-directed videos, the sound-bite TV appearances--all of that seems thin and sugary, like the glaze on a doughnut. Answering the door in a fuzzy bathrobe, that's real, that's true, that's hip-hop. In that one moment in her graffiti-scarred hallway, Rah was as big a star...
...will attest to that. The Pentagon, the CDC and the NIH are all working furiously on a new, safer vaccine, as well as studying ways to make the current one easier on the arm than it is now. Which would only serve to make me feel like a sucker if they, or Congress, get their act together sometime next fall...
...spend last December stockpiling Champagne? Sucker. Instead of getting ready for a bubbly crisis that never came, you should have been stashing away the harder stuff, tequila. Since last year, farmers in and around the tequila-producing Mexican state of Jalisco have been facing shortages of agave, the spiky-leafed member of the lily family from which the spirit is distilled. Agave's price has leaped from about $40 a ton a year ago to a high of $560 a ton last December. If the shortage continues--and the agave plant's grandfatherly maturation time of eight to 12 years...
STRAP THAT SUCKER Frustrated because your preschooler is still sucking his or her thumb at night? Ask your dentist how to use a technique outlined in the journal Pediatric Dentistry safely. The method involves wrapping an Ace bandage (snugly, but not too tightly) around your child's elbow, from mid-arm to mid-forearm, to create a gentle tension that pulls the thumb from the mouth as the youngster relaxes and falls asleep. The approach, which has shown a 60% rate of success, requires that your child be willing to try it, and that he or she be periodically rewarded...