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...prevailing thought was that pre-term babies should not be touched, since the slightest shock could prove fatal. Ever so slowly, the medical establishment has been warming to the idea that massage helps sickly babies. Yet only a handful of hospital nurseries in the U.S. offer massage to these tiniest of patients. Hospital administrators remain skeptical of claims about its therapeutic value, and since most HMOs don't cover baby massage, there's little incentive to start pilot programs. Besides, harried nurses can barely handle the steady stream of critically ill infants with special needs, much less find time...
...morning to go to their jobs, and, in the evenings, they either go out with friends or go home and watch TV. Some of them even wear suits to work. And true, all of them are working at jobs that could conceivably be permanent. But only the tiniest number of them actually think that those jobs will be permanent--or that anything about their current lives might be permanent, for that matter...
...students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble in a one. A large minority of respondents do not even write any comments at all, preferring to leave future students to their unadvised fates...
ARES VALLIS, Mars: Great truth often is found in the tiniest and most ordinary of details. If so, a blizzard of revelations may be raining down now that the Sojourner rover has rolled carefully down the Pathfinder ramp and begun poking around the Martian surface. On Monday, the rover, which looks more like a post-modern plant stand than a space vehicle, spent ten hours studying a nondescript rock dubbed "Barnacle Bill" by scientists, in order to determine its composition. A neighboring rock nicknamed "Yogi" is next. Once Sojourner receives the steering signals broadcast by NASA late Monday, the scrappy...
...Disney full-animated feature is the most profitable franchise in movies, maybe in the entire entertainment industry. The pressure to keep producing the tiniest variations on a winning formula must be severe. So it was brave for the Disney artists to try tiptoeing away from what worked. Pocahontas had soaring melodies to match its do-gooding intentions; The Hunchback of Notre Dame came within two deaths and three cute gargoyles of being the first grownup singing-cartoon romantic tragedy. But these two movies also had an almost toxic serioso content. At times they got so solemn they could have been...