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Ford CEO Jacques Nasser has been doing his part - appearing in TV spots and signing newspaper ads in an attempt to quell public anxiety about the company's popular Explorer SUV and, more particularly, its disintegration-prone Firestone tires. But as he and other Ford officials appear in Washington for grilling by senators and congressmen, it's becoming clear that his efforts may be too little, too late. Perhaps hindered by the difficulties of working with another company, Ford has failed to practice the business-school paradigm established by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson when it dealt with the '80s Tylenol...
...negligence, though, comes from a former Aryan Nations security guard. In sworn testimony, Floyd Cochran admits that guards regularly operated off-premises because Butler "never told us not to." Moreover, Dees says, Butler's compound has long been a haven for ex-cons, a training ground for violence-prone men to commit crimes against "Aryan enemies...
Although researchers are still pondering what's behind the alarming increase in asthma, there are plenty of things that parents can do to help allergy-prone or asthmatic kids. For example, many allergists find that giving children a series of shots containing varying amounts of carefully selected irritants can desensitize the immune system and get it back on a more normal track. (The injections don't generally trigger an overreaction because they are delivered not into the respiratory system but through the skin.) "The shots usually aren't given before age 4," says Dr. Ira Finegold of St. Lukes-Roosevelt...
Still, single mothers are not immune to their own doubts--not least, wondering whether their child will suffer from the lack of a two-parent upbringing. Some research has indicated that children of single mothers are more prone to academic and emotional problems, especially during their teen years. However, those studies tended to focus on poor families headed by teen mothers and kids of divorced parents. A Cornell University study of six- and seven-year-olds found that the mere fact of single parenthood does not mean that a child will have trouble academically. Henry Ricciuti, professor emeritus of human...
...negligence, though, comes from a former Aryan Nations security guard. In sworn testimony, Floyd Cochran admits that guards regularly operated off-premises because Butler "never told us not to." Moreover, Dees says, Butler's compound has long been a haven for ex-cons, a training ground for violence-prone men to commit crimes against "Aryan enemies...