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...they can do beyond lavishing the child with plenty of loving reassurance and taking a firm but gentle hand when the object of fear - a bath, say, or the doctor - can't be avoided. It's only when extreme fears persist past age seven and significantly begin to affect the child's ability to function that clinicians become concerned. "When young children are doing well despite their fears, we don't intervene," says Phillipson. "When an older child starts to suffer at home or at school, it's time to get involved...
Crockett says he is trying not to let the major-league attention affect...
...think even Greenspan understands what we're looking at now - the reverse wealth effect. Bubbles have burst before, but we've never been here before, with the sheer amount of wealth that's been destroyed in the markets. We don't know how that's going to affect consumers, how that's going to affect the larger economy. And Greenspan doesn't know either...
...Some people get a little nervous when you have a wrinkle in your day--with overtime in the first game--but it certainly didn't affect us a bit," Stone said. "Our preperation has been outstanding in the last few weeks...
...Perhaps now we can all stop pretending that so-called private morality does not affect a person's public behavior." BOB SMALLMAN Merrill...