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...with a few hours at her social worker's office and gradually increasing the time until Chloe was spending two nights a week with her parents. "We spent a lot of time cuddling," says Oksana. In February Oksana and Scott regained custody of Chloe, now a 10-month-old toddler. And Chloe's foster parents babysit every two weeks, thus affording Oksana and Scott a much needed break and an additional degree of support...
...coming years, Shu, like so many other Americans of Chinese descent, watched the economic rise of China with keen interest. He had been born in Hong Kong but left for suburban New York City with his parents when he was just a toddler, making him, as he puts it, "thoroughly Americanized-more Woody Allen than anything else." The stint with Goldman in Hong Kong had rekindled his interest in China, however, and though his career brought him back to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, the lure of what was happening on the mainland proved irresistible. Two years...
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A CAPACITY to attend to several things at once. Mothers have done it since the hunter-gatherer era--picking berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler. Nor is electronic multitasking entirely new: we've been driving while listening to car radios since they became popular in the 1930s. But there is no doubt that the phenomenon has reached a kind of warp speed in the era of Web-enabled computers, when it has become routine to conduct six IM conversations, watch American Idol on TV and Google...
...board with big thick Velcro flaps - so firmly that he would be safely immobilized while I injected, cleansed, trimmed and sutured. Without the wiggling this was not too hard. With him still awake it was an acceptable struggle, far less dangerous than a general anesthetic for a medically unknown toddler with a full stomach...
...policy makers to sketch their dream family, and they might come up with one something like Susie's. She and her husband are young and work hard, and they have a toddler and plans for more. They've moved inland to a regional town, where Susie works as a midwife, a profession often badly short-staffed in rural areas. The community needs her, and she needs to work to help pay the mortgage. So everyone's happy, right? Not quite. The birth of Susie's first child almost forced her out of the workforce. Not only does her town have...