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Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, "I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
...most effective tools the Pentagon used to remake the U.S. armed forces was huge amounts of money. Since the final year of the Carter Administration, when many of the largest weapons programs began, through the years of the Reagan buildup, the nation invested $2.4 trillion in the Defense Department. Some of this largesse was wisely used on well-paid soldiers and well-made weapons. Plenty was not: a report to Congress last week indicated the three-year-old fleet of B-1B bombers, which were unable to take part in the gulf war because their engines and electronics...
Misleading questions by adults can cause children not just to lie but also to believe their falsehoods. Besharov cites the case of a three-year-old who told a social worker a story about a piece of candy being dropped into her underpants. After interviews by various child-protection workers, the story evolved into a tale that a candle had been inserted into the child's vagina. It took months of further interviews to discover that the original story had been correct...
Sitting on an examining table at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, three-year-old Shawntea West is smiling and alert, apparently in excellent health. But she is afflicted with the most common of the serious childhood diseases. The mumps? Viral meningitis? Measles? Whooping cough? The answer, says Dr. Herbert Needleman as he draws blood from her arm, is lead poisoning...
Under founder and president Ruth Owades, the three-year-old company has reached sales of $10 million. By contracting directly with 25 domestic and four foreign growers and teaming up with Federal Express, Owades cuts out wholesalers and retailers, guaranteeing that flowers or plants can be delivered within 48 hours and trimming costs as much as 15%. Customers of Calyx & Corolla -- the name refers to the outer and inner parts of a flower -- receive six catalogs a year, offering arrangements ranging from $25 (nine Enchantment Lilies) to $450 (a year's worth of orchids...