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...have resources and/or children of our own, and welcoming one more into the flock (or the mansion) won’t change anything, except the life of that child. The training course required of all foster parents, if nothing else, will make you a better parent. So stick a crib in your apartment or make that extra bed, and prepare for cute company...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: Fostering Parenthood at Harvard | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...most of the population. After bidding high sums to get the licenses, carriers found they were unable to meet overly optimistic revenue projections. They couldn't pay their license fees to the government nor their network-construction-related debts. In a bid to rescue the nascent industry from crib death, regulators shifted to a revenue-sharing scheme in 1999 that lifted the burden of license payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Dialing | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

When Elizabeth's son arrived and favored his crib, bottle feeding and a bouncy chair, Tracy made subtly disparaging comments about her friend's abandonment of the attachment techniques. At the same time Elizabeth began to feel that Tracy was keeping her baby in the sling even when the child was wriggling to get down and nursing her when she didn't seem hungry; in her view Tracy was responding not so much to the infant's needs but rather to her own insecurities. The situation finally peaked when Elizabeth mentioned that she had brought her son into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Child Rearing: Good Buddy, Bad Mom | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Teddy’s crib is in the third floor of my residence. I slept in it as a child, my children slept in it,” he says, “and hopefully my children’s children will sleep in this heirloom...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sophomores Living It Up, Presidential Style | 11/8/2002 | See Source »

Money and connections might take you far in life, but Panthongtae Shinawatra is discovering they don't do you much good on the final exam. The 22-year-old son of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, was reportedly caught cheating with crib notes during a political science exam at Bangkok's Ramkhamhaeng University. According to local newspaper reports, Panthongtae signed a confession and could now face a one-year school suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hide the Report Card | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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