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ECHO staff members say they let the callers and visitors explain their situation and then tailor advice to the individual...
Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut 12-step program outlining the proper response to a friend with an eating disorder. Although friends must tailor their response based on individual relationships, below are some guidelines for friends, lovers, roommates and relatives of people with eating disorders. These guidelines are based on the advice of Sheila M. Reindl and M. Suzanne Repetto of the Bureau of Study Counsel and are available in more detail at the ECHO office in the Old Quincy Basement, F entryway...
...West and the U.S.S.R. Compared with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, hoodlums smuggling things across borders strike most people as an inevitable and tolerable fact of life. But John le Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world order. Single & Single (Scribner; 347 pages; $26), his 17th novel, provides a fascinating journey through the new landscape of corruption...
...according to group leaders, employees canvirtually tailor-make their schedules, spreadingout their allotment of hours over various days orworking all at once...
Many teachers rave about the high-stakes exams, contending that they have galvanized students. But other teachers find themselves forsaking important lessons simply to "teach for the test." Even in North Carolina, whose soaring scores earned accolades in Clinton's State of the Union address, some teachers tailor upwards of 80% of their lessons to the test, according to a University of North Carolina survey. "Teachers must go way beyond textbook instruction," says Felicita Santiago, principal of a Brooklyn public elementary school, where teachers came in an hour before school to help kids get ready for the exam. "Preparing...