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...your teen accuses you of overreacting, point out that depending on your state's laws, you could be sued if a minor gets high or drunk in your home and hurts someone. This may be true even if you're away at the time, according to John Weichsel, a New Jersey attorney who has handled parental-liability cases. "You could be on the hook civilly and criminally," he says...
...feel good about your decision, whatever you do. If there's any consolation, it's that these kinds of responsibilities don't last forever. Weichsel and his wife never went away when their kids were in high school. But now that the boys are safely out of the house, he says, laughing, "I have no idea what they're doing, which can sometimes be a very good thing...
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...
...current, gives 30% to 50% more mechanical power and will save over $100,000,000 yearly if put into general use, was announced at the annual meeting of the Technical Section of the National Electric Light Association, at Omaha. It is the invention of Val A. Fynn and Hans Weichsel...
...distance to which electrical power could be conveyed, direct current being transmissible only a few miles. Nikola Tesla invented motors to operate on alternating current 35 years ago, but until now there has always been a large fraction of energy wasted in proportion to the " working current." The Fynn-Weichsel motor utilizes the entire current...
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