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That calculation might make business sense, but it grossly undervalues what kids want and need most: our time and attention. One of the favorite play dates in my circle is at a home where there are few fancy toys but where things are noisy and fun and the mom is always ready to take everyone to the skating rink or the zoo. When a child begs for something--whether a $500 electric-powered baby Jaguar or a $7 bottle of lime-green nail polish--she's often just begging for a conversation with you. "Spoiling" is overindulgence combined with neglect...
White House officials suspect that aides to Israeli Prime Minister EHUD BARAK leaked the draft to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz to show skeptical Israelis that Barak is bargaining tough and winning concessions. "That does make our work harder," says State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN. Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister FAROUK SHARA were to return to Shepherdstown this week. Clinton aides hope the two will finally start bargaining seriously behind closed doors and stop posturing. "It doesn't instill confidence in your negotiating partners when everything is out in public," says a U.S. diplomat...
Sensing no big raise coming my way, I inquired about being one of the voices for that "You've got mail" thing. She said I could probably distribute my column via AOL and say, "You've got Joel's column," which I thought would also make a much better movie than that stupid Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan thing...
...microchips have brought us to this: grown people arguing over the reality of digital billboards vs. paper-and-paste ones. But such tricks, like digital retouching in print magazines, do feed public suspicion. What, viewers may rightly wonder, is to keep newscasts from digitally jazzing up video, to make explosions or protests, say, more dramatic? "When you have new technology like this," says Rather, "it's going to raise new issues." And that...
SICKLE SCREEN Some infants with sickle-cell anemia will go on to develop serious, life-threatening problems. But which ones? Now researchers think they have an objective way to make that determination: sick kids with very high white-blood-cell counts, low hemoglobin and swelling in their arms and legs are twice as likely to suffer severe complications by the time they're 10 years old. That means they're probably good candidates for new, but risky, experimental treatments like stem-cell transplants...