Word: cared
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...Brain Tumor Society provides funds for research and clinical care and provides educational materials and access to counselling resources for tumor patients and their families, Feldman said...
...such effort is a day-care center for young and old alike set up by Stride Rite Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., the first private company to establish this type of facility. The $700,000 pilot program, which opened last month after three years of planning, consists of adjoining centers that allow easy mingling and interaction between 55 children, from 18 months to five years old, and 24 elders over 60. Separated only by windows and hallways, the old and the young have plenty of opportunities to visit one another. Shared activities such as cooking and birthday parties are planned...
...program was initiated by Stride Rite Chairman Arnold Hiatt, who pioneered on-site child care in the early 1970s. The center attracts half its participants from families who live near the company's corporate headquarters; the others are related to employees who contribute on a sliding, income-based scale to the annual $7,000 cost. Hiatt recruited faculty members from Boston's Wheelock College to develop a curriculum of shared activities such as storytelling and puppet plays...
...stereotypical images emerge. A child can become afraid of older people because he thinks they are going to die. But by spending time with the elderly, kids learn to accept the frailty of the aging while discovering their strengths. In one Pennsylvania program toddlers from a local day-care center spend time with Alzheimer's patients after being read such books as Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me. Youngsters also learn that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss. It will help children cope not only...
...called by the prosecution but proved so antagonistic that Judge Harold Greene declared him a "hostile witness." Webb got North not only to admit to the jury that he had lied to Congress, but also that he had done so right after Poindexter had told him to "take care" of legislators' questions about the NSC's illegal help to the contras. On his return from the meeting, North got an electronic note from Poindexter saying "Well done...