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...giving the Lutine a double ring, but he was doubly delighted with the result. Not only did the decision close a "distant and troubled chapter in Lloyd's history," he said, but it would allow Lloyd's to "get on with the business of running the world's foremost specialist insurance market." As Taylor put it in an interview with TIME, "We couldn't have wished for a more unequivocal decision...
Modern baby-sleep methodologies fall into two mutually exclusive camps: the Ferber-izers and the Sears-ites. Dr. Richard Ferber is a pediatric sleep specialist and author of Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems, which uses scientific-looking charts and graphs to prove that parents should let their babies cry themselves to sleep. In the other corner of the nursery are William and Martha Sears, authors of The Baby Book. The Searses are proponents of holding, swaddling, nursing and co-sleeping in the family bed. Both sides offer plenty of advice, and both are quite dogmatic. It's my feeling...
...elector is chosen for every electoral vote available to a state. Electors can't hold federal office. Some celebrities have been electors, like Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow. This year they include the Florida attorney general, a retired school administrator in Ohio and a computer specialist in Arizona...
...controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander - someone qualified to ride the space shuttle...
Laura Stover took her daughter Karen to a specialist when the girl began growing pubic hair at age 5. The doctor put Karen through a battery of blood tests to rule out ovarian tumors (which can force glands to churn out puberty-triggering hormones). But there was no apparent medical problem, and by age 8, Karen had full pubic growth. "We didn't allow her to go to any slumber parties," says Stover. "Or to change bathing suits in front of other children...