Word: righting
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...course: all parents want to be told if their kids are doing something wrong. Others say, Of course not: one parent's wrong might be another parent's "So what?" It's hard enough looking after your own kids without policing other people's. There's no right answer for every parent in a situation like this, so the best strategy may be to decide in advance what you will do if the problem comes...
...record will show," Bellow said in 1994, "what the 20th century made of me and what I made of the 20th century." That task remains to be done, but this book is a useful and timely step in the right direction...
...thinking parents everywhere. I am concerned enough to educate myself about vaccines and intelligent enough to realize that although there are benefits from immunizations, there are most definitely significant risks as well. Parents are the ones who are ultimately responsible for their child's welfare. They have a right to choose whether or not a potentially dangerous substance is injected into their child. LAURA W. KING Lewisville, Texas...
...first heard this get-out-and-vote rhetoric in seventh grade, when my civics teacher told our class that, if we didn't vote, we'd forfeit our right to complain. There is no more effective scare tactic on a class filled with 13-year-old Jewish boys, other than to mess with our Bar Mitzvah money. But voting so that you can whine is probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might...
Walking away is a strategy more and more workers are using. On the phone with your lover and the chat heats up? Talking to your doctor and the news gets grim? Just pick up your cell phone and amble to a hallway or right out of the building. "I can't tell you how often we've pulled up at a client's," says Santa Barbara, Calif., architect Robin Donaldson, "and found the CEO out in the parking lot making a cell-phone call. I think the proliferation of cell phones has made these open offices workable...