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A wonderful example of this is a new television show in Egypt called "Salaam Sesame." It adapts the idea of the American "Sesame Street" into a children's program mixing the use of Muppets and live characters. But it has modified the characters to promote social messages tailored towards contemporary...
For example, "Salaam Sesame" has a female Muppet who excels in her studies, to combat traditional biases against girls trying to do well in school. Similarly, it features other Muppets who represent Egypt's Christian minority, to show children a positive example of toleration and diversity.
Living Wage Campaign members said they valued the statistics but that they believed they did not fully represent workers' situations.
The piece that followed Without Words, however, had more than enough emotional impact. Mark Godden's Another Year, set to tense music by Henryk Gorecki, dramatizes the disintegration of a marriage. The piece, not surprisingly, opens with a marriage: a couple embraces while the guests hold up wine glasses in...
The study raises the question of whether children are being prescribed drugs for behavior that in earlier times would have been dismissed as bratty or "kids just being kids." TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith is troubled by the implications of the survey, but he also has scientific concerns about...