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...Neurology, the Child Neurology Society and the American Epilepsy Society. After reviewing hundreds of studies, they strongly recommend that an electroencephalogram (EEG) be performed on all children when they experience their first non-fever-related seizure. The procedure records bursts of the brain's electrical activity and is quick (less than an hour), painless and safe. It can tell you not only what kind of seizure your child has had but also what the chances of recurrence...
Unfortunately, Bushnell, who forged her reputation with the often insightful New York Observer column "Sex and the City" (the basis for the HBO series), has not expanded her repertoire--merely fictionalized it with four disagreeable characters. She takes us on the same ride, only this time it's much less...
...FAST Investors often overlook new funds, especially small-caps without long track records. You shouldn't. This year average small-cap growth funds are outperforming their large-cap counterparts by a margin of 7%. And the No. 1 fund in the category, William Blair, has been around for less than a year. Returns like that show it's worth taking a harder look at the newcomers...
...result is that unemployment has recently dropped most sharply among less educated people. And, says Wyss, "by creating jobs for lower-skilled people, you have changed the basic way income is distributed." From 1973 to 1993, he notes, only the top-earning 20% of the population received any gain at all in real income, but "in the past five years the bottom 20% had the highest income gains" of any group...
Even if the boom does roll on for a decade longer, there is a question of which approach, Bush's or Gore's, would leave the economy in the best shape to weather the shocks foreseeable a quarter-century or so ahead. In the view of the less partisan members of TIME's board, the answer is, neither. But the competing plans pose quite different answers to the question of how best to distribute the benefits--or more bluntly, to that fundamental political question, Who gets what...