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...counting "The West Wing"): a hilarious allegorical story of independence, relationships and mortality, told through scary stories (just as "The Twilight Zone" did), that has gotten ever more touching and audacious in its fifth season. See this year's outlandish subplot, in which Whedon introduced Buffy's younger sister Dawn - we'd never seen her before but the cast acted like she'd been there all along -who turned out to be an ancient mystical "key" disguised by a spell that made her friends and family believe they'd known her for years. What first seemed like a clumsy...
...needs of religious conservatives, because he saw how their coldness toward Bush Sr. doomed his reelection in 1992. Rove has spent the past eight years making sure Dubya doesn't feel the same chill. The task has been made easier, of course, by the fact that the younger Bush is more conservative and sympathetic to the Christian right. But Rove doesn't take chances. He not only constructed a policy agenda that would satisfy conservatives, but during the campaign - while marketing Bush as a moderate - he also used a weekly conference call to reassure evangelicals that the candidate...
...only 10 years on, the first time we re-released it on disc in Britain [on Rykodisc], it didn’t seem that important to dig up all the rest of the archives; they weren’t that far away. As you see us getting younger in the photographs, compared to our present-day selves, to the point where we wouldn’t even recognize ourselves from those pictures…it becomes more important to hold onto it, to make it visible, because pretty soon history turns around the bend and disappears...
...Miriam Kaufman, a pediatrician and author of the very helpful book Overcoming Teen Depression: A Guide for Parents (Firefly Books), says 15% to 20% of teens--especially younger teens--will have diagnosable depression at some time during their adolescence, often triggered by romantic involvements or breakups. "I advise kids not to jump into romances too early, because young adolescence is a time for girls to cement their friendships, and strong friendships--and a strong sense of self--help kids through the tough times," she told me. "Unfortunately, some parents are overly invested in their daughters' love lives before they...
...attachments tend to increase the health and well-being of adults, those relationships are a great source of stress for adolescents and can lead to depression, the study says. Kara Joyner, a sociologist at Cornell and co-author of the study, said, "Girls become more depressed than boys, and younger girls are the worst...