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...says Sylvia Martinez, owner of The Goddess's Treasure Chest, several of the merchants complained to the council that the fairs stole their business during "haunted happenings season." They asked it to shut down unlicensed psychics and draw up guidelines of psychic ethics and quality. ("What are the criteria?" the Salem News reported a baffled councilwoman as asking.) One Salem police officer testified about a scam whereby adepts detected a "dark aura" around a tourist and then charged as much as $5,000 to remove...
Studies of young criminals have found that more than 70% of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes. Children from broken families are nearly twice as likely as those in two-parent families to drop out of high school. After assessing the studies, economist Sylvia Hewlett suggested that "school failure may well have as much to do with disintegration of families as with the quality of schools...
...still the mother who carries her child's life around in her head, keeping the mental daybook on who needs a lift to piano practice and who needs to get the poetry folder in on time. After examining much of the research on men's housework and child care, Sylvia Hewlett concluded that married men's average time in household tasks had increased only 6% in 20 years, even as women have flooded the workplace. Psychologists Rosalind Barnett and Grace Baruch found that fathers were often willing to perform the jobs they were assigned but were not responsible for remembering...
...these resolutions arrive surprisingly late, as the league has already begun to take responsibility for the declining health of its players. When Mackey’s wife, Sylvia, wrote last May to then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue about the financial burden that can result from the rapid decline of retired players’ health, the league and the NFL Players Association responded by creating the “Number 88 Plan.” Named after John Mackey’s jersey number, the plan will pay up to $88,000 for each former player’s treatment...
...life of its own and it's happening on some other planet. I mean, really, that's what it feels like. It feels oddly unrelated; it's like the Sylvia film. You can analyze [my parents] as much as you like, but if you weren't actually the people themselves . . . It's interesting to me that people have been so interested in them. I think one of the reasons out of many of the reasons, apart from the fact they did write some super poetry, and their lives were sadly tragic, I think part of it is that people...