Word: makeing
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...crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch as the U.S. Senate voted last week to cancel Egypt's $6.7 billion military debt, marking the first time that Egypt will receive a better deal than Israel from the U.S., a stark reminder to Israelis of their diminishing importance as a strategic...
...very heavy going. So there was applause from many quarters last week as Congress passed a sweeping truth-in-labeling bill, the first comprehensive revision of national nutritional labeling laws in 17 years. The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which awaits President Bush's signature to become law, will make food manufacturers and processors provide more nutritional information on virtually all foods, and bar them from making scientifically unsubstantiated health claims...
Since Christensen, 43, started the Clown Care Unit at Babies Hospital four years ago, the project has grown to involve 25 trained clowns who make rounds at eight New York City hospitals. Two or three days a week, bands of these performers, dressed in mock hospital garb and bearing such names as Dr. Comfort, Dr. EBDBD and Disorderly Gordoon, visit ailing children and their families. The clowns' purpose: to alleviate the fear and confusion of hospital stays and provide bright moments with humorous routines, such as "drawing blood" -- with red crayons -- and giving funny-bone examinations. Christensen has found...
Christensen tries not to let the occasional rejection deter him. "I can hear no, see no, in someone's face," he says. "I don't have to push to make it a yes. That's not my job." He says he learned an important lesson from his dying brother: "My responsibility was not to save him but to love him and give what I could. My responsibility is to love the children, to give joy and celebration, not to make them accept it. That's their choice." Fortunately for all concerned, most do accept the gentle medicine of Dr. Stubs...
Most grandparents, however, dig in and make the best of a difficult situation. Two years ago, after 2 1/2-year-old Mitchell was left in their care, Shirley and Charles Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley...