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...BINKIES Researchers have found that heavy pacifier use by infants older than six months increases the risk of ear infections--the most common reason for childhood visits to the doctor. The constant sucking can cause harm to the Eustachian tube, making it more difficult for the middle ear to drain. Nurses involved in the study suggest parents take pacifiers away during playtime and allow toddlers to use them only when falling asleep...
...Piacentinis learned about the polar-bear park by chance, but many ecotourists find out about such places from television or magazines--and then use the Internet to research or book their trips. Knight Inlet Lodge's Internet site, www.grizzlytours.com has helped attract people from the U.S. and 17 other countries. Larry Jandrew chose Knight Inlet because his wife Barb, a bear fan, had watched an A&E television show, in which the lodge was touted as the fifth most exotic vacation on earth...
Elliott, who went back to school and got a bachelor's degree in psychology at 39 and then a master's in social work at 44, is the kind of person that people mean when they use the phrase lifelong learner. And she's not alone--in an American Association of Retired Persons study published in July, 9 of 10 adults ages 50 and over said they wanted to actively seek out learning opportunities to keep current, grow personally and enjoy the simple pleasure of mastering something new. "We're increasingly becoming aware that learning is a prescription...
...profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will be able to take courses...
...when Bush was captured by an open mike calling the New York Times's Adam Clymer "a major league a__hole," was that George W. got caught doing publicly what he usually does privately. If you are the candidate of "raising the tone," it won't do to use epithets that can be printed only with dashes. If gravitas is the main quality you sought in a running mate, it doesn't do to have Dick Cheney, in an Ed McMahon moment, agreeing, "Oh, yeah, he is--big time." And if you need the press to confirm your image...