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...sounds visionary, that's because it is. The university is chartered by the Principality of New Utopia--a two-year-old city-state on three submerged seamounts in the Caribbean that currently has more than 500 citizens...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Grad To Run On-Line University | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

Similarly, no matter how many cop shows they watch, seven-year-olds can't understand Miranda rights. In an important case in 1986, the New York supreme court issued a ruling that made it more difficult, at least in that state, to question very young children suspected of crimes. Three years earlier, a seven-year-old Queens boy named Julian B. had allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Virginia mix-up choose to listen to a judge rather than their hearts and common sense, precedent favors the biological claim. Remember Baby Jessica and Baby Richard, each tearfully pried from adoptive parents to begin life anew with birth parents? More recent and extreme cases, like the two-year-old Maryland boy plucked from a loving foster mother to be reared by a biological mother who had killed his sister, have prompted legislators to pass laws that give more weight to the "best interests" of the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Knows Best | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Reality is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The first television show explicitly designed for the one- to two-year-old set, it centers on the comical activities of four fuzzy creatures who speak in baby talk, eat Tubby Custard ("Tubby Tustard!"), share "big hugs," and have TV antennas on their heads and TV screens on their stomachs that transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Teletubbies Revealed | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...couple has a two-year-old daughter, Liv, whom Bringa insists will be bilingual...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diplomat Galbraith Makes Peace His Career | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

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