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...study, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, looked at 452 boys from a variety of backgrounds. The researchers found that boys who are granted high social status by their classmates are not only the "model" children who are smart, cool, athletic and respectful. Fully a third are boys who use aggression to achieve and maintain their popularity. Philip Rodkin, lead researcher for the study, says that while aggression can be alienating, it can also make a kid powerful and popular at a young...
These are powerful inducements that must be weighed against individual needs. The immediate tax bite may not be worth it if you have to use 401(k) assets to pay the bill. And the math doesn't work if your company's stock has been a dud. The diversification issue looms large as well. Rolling into an IRA allows you to sell the stock without triggering a tax liability and then buy mutual funds to reduce risk...
...daily value for iron by eating 3 1/3 Cookie Bars, or 18 Cracker Bites plus two Cookie Bars. "Vitamin supplements are easier," says Susan B. Roberts, author of Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health (and no relation to Susan A. Roberts). But if you don't want to use vitamins, she says, "these are a pretty good...
...part of the home but rather where the family computer should already be: in a shared area like a family or dining room. Kids won't feel exiled or isolated in such a place, and parents will be able to keep a casual eye on both homework and computer use. Some of the old homework rules still hold: the area should be one that is reasonably quiet, well lighted, stocked with supplies and TV free...
Since its reinstatement in the U.S. in 1977, the death penalty has remained one of the handful of soul-defining issues that can be reduced to a simple question: for or against? But in the 38 states that use capital punishment, ways to deal with flaws in its administration are not so cut-and-dried. Last Sunday, Illinois became the first state to address such problems by banning the measure - albeit temporarily - when Governor George Ryan announced an indefinite moratorium on executions pending an investigation into the state's justice system. The last straw came last week when...