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...developed in the 1970s by David Olds, a professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. NFP involves about 64 home visits from a nurse during the first 2½ years of a child's life. Many of the new mothers who receive the benefit are single, are on welfare, have low education levels and are dealing with addiction, mental illness and family violence. Nurses visit once a week during pregnancy and early infancy, answering health questions, teaching basic parenting skills and, crucially, helping moms whose own early lives were often characterized by chaos...
Dame Agatha's Digs. Agatha Christie fans can visit Greenway, the mystery writer's beloved summer home in Devon, England, which is now open to the public. The bedrooms, drawing room and dining rooms of the house that inspired Dead Man's Folly have been carefully restored to their 1950s state by the National Trust. If you'd like to stay overnight, you can even rent one of two cottages on the grounds. Greenway Road, Galmpton, near Brixham...
When Senator John Kerry visited Gaza last week, he made certain to emphasize that he had no contact with Hamas, and demanded that the militants stop firing rockets into Israel. Still, Kerry's visit - one of the first to the coastal strip by an American legislator since Hamas took power there in 2007 - wasn't exactly the kind of publicity that Israeli officials wanted. While being escorted into Gaza by an armed United Nations convoy, Kerry was disturbed by the sight of Israeli security forces blocking trucks filled with pasta from entering the beleaguered territory. Pasta, the Senator was told...
...more concern to Israel, perhaps, is the fact that Kerry's visit highlighted the crumbling of the U.S. and Israeli effort to isolate Hamas inside its Gaza ghetto. Not only did the Islamist organization survive the Israeli incursion aimed at smashing its military capability (sporadic rocket fire from Gaza continues even now); it took advantage of the fog of war to mop up what remains of its rival Fatah movement in Gaza. And as the international effort to rebuild Gaza gathers momentum, it confronts the inescapable political fact that nothing can be done in Gaza without the consent and cooperation...
...rushed to visit Bhutto at the hospital. He put a wreath on her grave. He's showing powerful leadership when the country feels at a loss. He's learned a lot in exile." - Sartaj Aziz on Sharif's response to the Bhutto assassination. Aziz was a minister under Sharif during Sharif's terms as prime minister. Washington Post...