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...slightly less than 25 acres near the village of Korokoro in Mali in West Africa. His headaches are endless: low- yielding seeds from Mali's government-controlled cotton company, boll weevils that this season resisted five applications of pesticides; capricious weather; a lack of equipment, which forces him to pick his cotton by hand in the scorching heat; even monkeys, which occasionally get into the fields and pry open the bolls to get at the sweet water trapped inside...
...popular, if harrowing, sleep techniques. Recalcitrant sleepers are left shrieking in their cribs for progressively longer periods at night so as to learn to soothe themselves. Deeply conflicted parents are instructed to ignore howls and wails until the allotted moment, at which point they can coo at--but not pick up--their babies before leaving them to suffer themselves to sleep. For parents who successfully Ferberize, the method is a godsend, if by way of purgatory. Even fans shudder at the recollection of those tear-stained nights, when every fiber of their bodies called them to console their unhappy babe...
Within each school, confessions abound. Hard-core Attachmentites reveal they caved in to the pacifier (recently endorsed by the American Association of Pediatrics as a preventive for SIDS). Ferber followers beg one another's permission to pick up a weeping infant for just five minutes. Even Ferber admits, "Parents have always modified my program, and that's fine." Which makes me feel better about my own cheating (I added white noise and swaddled past the deadline). The truth is, even when parents stick with a program, most of them skip some rules and customize others. Standardized steps may sell books...
...first Bulldog play of the third overtime saw another turnover, this one the interception by defensive tackle Michael Berg off a tipped pass—the first pick of his entire football career...
...Calabasas, California product was an all-state pick his senior year, and an all-Southern section selection twice. In addition, he was the Ventura County player of the year as well as conference MVP his senior season. He left Calabasas High as the school’s all-time scoring and assists leader...