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...diagnosed, and for years more before it is properly treated. "If you don't catch it early on," says Dr. Demitri Papolos, research director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation and co-author of The Bipolar Child (Broadway Books, 1999), "it gets worse, like a tumor." Heaping this torment on an adult is bad enough; loading it on a child is tragic...
...their working lives. Why? For one thing, to allow for the working off of the excesses that accompanied the two decades of exceptional market growth we have just experienced. It does not necessarily follow that two decades of outsize gains will give way to an extended period of market torment, but that's what some market analysts expect, and you might as well own up to the possibility, especially since most stocks remain expensive relative to their earnings, even after the steep declines of the past couple of years...
...haunted me this summer, it’s that Mom is always right. And no matter how old I get, I keep trying and failing to prove her wrong. She told me once, “Someday you’ll have kids of your own who will torment you.” When I was younger I could laugh away the prophecy; this summer I am living...
It’s not that my kids torment me—that would be too strong a word—it’s more like they try to make my life as difficult as possible. Every decision is questioned, and every activity, no matter how much fun, is grounds for moaning and criticism. Why can’t we do long jumps over the coffee tables in the lobby? Why can’t we buy swords at the Renaissance Festival? Do you have to punish me for starting a food fight in the cafeteria...
...love movie stars and pop idols--but we also happen to resent their beauty, wealth and fame. So it's good to know that there are vile squadrons of ruthless photographers out there making the lives of the famous miserable. Paparazzi are the furies that we dispatch to torment the gods...