Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adoptive parents decided five years after his adoption that Tony had not properly "bonded" with them, and returned him to the state in March. They kept Sam, Tony's natural younger brother. Patrick Murphy, the Chicago public guardian who was appointed to serve as Tony's attorney, says the youngster is an "absolute joy to be around." But there have been scars. Says Murphy: "One of the tragic things is that Tony blames himself...
...gifted, he was busy and he was ambitious, but he was still not ready for prime time. Veteran members of the Boston and other orchestras that he conducted found it hard to forgive an impudent kid his sudden celebrity. (When the frisky youngster appeared in New York City, recalls a former Philharmonic player, one of the musicians dubbed him Michael Tinsel Tushy...
...Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys (New Society Publishers; $12.95). According to Carlsson-Paige and Levin, the damage being done is even worse than just making kids want to fight. TV- based war toys, say the authors, can destroy a child's creativity by luring the youngster into a pernicious pattern of imitating video characters. The book makes a strong case against today's war games and offers advice to parents on how to cope with the changing world of children's play...
...Miami native whose family moved to New York City when he was a youngster, Paul returned in 1983 as a little known real estate developer with a $52 million offer to buy the faltering Dade Savings and Loan (assets: $2.2 billion). State regulators were happy someone was willing to take over the sick thrift. Paul renamed the S&L and within a few years sent its profits zooming. His method: investing CenTrust's assets heavily in junk bonds, many of which he bought from Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert. By the late 1980s the payoff from CenTrust...
...truth, motives for having babies are never selfless. Children are called to life by adult desires: to experience parenthood, to have an heir, to ensure that a youngster is not an only child. "In a sense we all have children to use them," says bioethicist Michael Shapiro of the University of Southern California. And motives can be mixed. Mary Ayala has long wanted a third child. Abe points out that "if Anissa didn't survive, we'd have another child in the house to help us with our sense of loss." Human needs are so tangled that no one expects...