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With 1 of every 2 marriages ending in divorce, more than half of all American children have been part of a broken family. Books like Anthony E. Wolf's Why Did You Have to Get a Divorce? And When Can I Get a Hamster?: A Guide to Parenting through Divorce (Noonday) aim to help parents help their children through the ordeal. Wolf, a clinical psychologist who has worked with kids for almost 30 years, gives practical guidance for talking to children about tough issues. When, for example, is the right time to tell your son or daughter that...
...more innocent time, Marvin Aufrichtig would stage what he called "the Hamster Olympics" at the family home in Brooklyn. Marv, an aspiring sportscaster, would do the play-by-play as his hamsters competed against one another in a series of events. Their names were Ambrose and Zachary...
Last week the hamster in the wheel was Marv Albert. The sportscaster had started it spinning, to be sure, but the wheel, further propelled by justice and journalism, picked up so much speed that the former Marvin Aufrichtig just had to get off. On Thursday afternoon, in a bizarre end to a bizarre trial at Virginia's Arlington County courthouse, Albert, 56, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of assault and battery in a case brought by a longtime lover. In the bargain, which prosecutors said had been offered to Albert before the trial began, the far more serious charge...
...them in host cells grown in the laboratory. In 1983 scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen isolated the specific bit of DNA that carried the code for producing erythropoietin. They placed the gene in a minuscule bacterial structure called a plasmid, inserted the plasmid into the ovary of a hamster and began to produce synthetic erythropoietin. In 1989 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of recombinant human erythropoietin under the name Epoetin alfa. The process has since saved thousands of lives...
Dubbing, non-stop fighting, physical comedy like Chan's rolling away in a hamster-wheel contraption--one realizes it's about as close to a cartoon as humans get. But the panting and hard knocks let you know it's another Jackie Chan special. The self-effacing good humor ("I'm too delicate," he complains at once point) makes it bearable, and any film that's brave enough to use the spudboys from Devo for its title song and Tom Jones for "Kung-Fu Fighting" has to get some credit. Eager-to-please and good fun, "Supercop" provides...