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...next learned that our daughter was one of 865 Emilys--there were no Emilis--born in 1989 in Illinois. Because a spelling change doesn't affect pronunciation, my husband and I can "correct" Emily's birth certificate for just $15. For $170 we can file a 12-page petition for a name change in the New York county where we now live...
...obligatory task--no self-respecting politician or newspaper editorial page can let Independence Day pass without a tribute to the nation's birth. Some just give up on coming up with anything new--instead of putting together the customary pastiche of patriotic platitudes, the Boston Globe editorial page and a few other newspapers reprinted the entire Declaration of Independence on Tuesday in place of their editorials. Who can top that, anyway...
...Dalton Conley, a sociologist at New York University, doesn't know why low-birth-weight babies are nearly four times as likely not to graduate from high school on time as their siblings. But he and Neil Bennett of the Baruch School of Public Affairs know that it happens, having parsed reams of University of Michigan data on families going back to 1968, and came up with the longest view yet of how underweight babies (5.5 pounds or less) turn...
...Those findings are troubling. The ill effects of low birth weight on social and intellectual development, well documented by previous studies, were previously thought to fade in adolescence; Conley's findings suggest they may be irreparable. In the seemingly controlled environment of families, only 15 percent of the low-weight children graduated high school by 19, whereas 57 percent of their siblings...
...seem, if not innocuous by comparison, then at least pretty much the same old American thing. The dilemmas remain. The Supreme Court in recent days has handed down decisions on gays in the Boy Scouts, Miranda rights, prayer at high school football games, and - disgracefully - on partial birth abortion. Whitman's day had the Dred Scott decision, which denied American citizenship to blacks. The Supreme Court, never truly the last word on anything, has much to answer...