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...boys leading a much smaller boy out of a Liverpool, England, shopping center. The boys lured James Bulger, 2, away from his mother, who was shopping, and led him on a long walk across town. The excursion ended at a railroad track. There, inexplicably, the older boys tortured the toddler, kicking him, smearing paint on his face and pummeling him to death with bricks before leaving him on the track to be dismembered by a train. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, then went off to watch cartoons...
Inside an old factory building in Cambridge, Mass., a remarkable machine with the improbable name Zeus is hard at work. Flexing its two robotic arms, the computer-driven device reaches again and again into a storage area the size of a toddler's crib, where thousands of individual samples of genetic material sit in tiny wells etched into plastic plates, each one identified by a unique bar code. One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid...
...tech. "For people who have a tough time swallowing pills," says Langer, "a company called Alkermes has developed a special straw that is loaded with a premeasured dose of dry medication. The patient then uses the straw to sip water, a soft drink or apple juice." And for a toddler who spits out, throws up or gags on fever-reducing medication, there are fast-acting suppositories to which parents can resort...
...Sure, we've been known to use Dumbo as a sedative, but most nights ours are the last voices our children hear before they sleep. An acquaintance once boasted that her three kids, including a toddler, put themselves to bed. All she had to do was turn out the lights and lower the volume on each child's TV. That sad image is enough to sustain me until our youngest is an adult, when Santa can do as he pleases...
...Teach a toddler to tie his shoes...