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Beyond promoting balance and variety in kids' diets, meals together send the message that citizenship in a family entails certain standards beyond individual whims. This is where a family builds its identity and culture. Legends are passed down, jokes rendered, eventually the wider world examined through the lens of a family's values. In addition, younger kids pick up vocabulary and a sense of how conversation is structured. They hear how a problem is solved, learn to listen to other people's concerns and respect their tastes. "A meal is about sharing," says Doherty. "I see this trend where parents...
...continued to be reviewed by TIME editors and Pentagon correspondent Sally B. Donnelly. TIME's story "One Morning in Haditha" was published on March 19 on TIME.com and appeared the next day in the print magazine (which carried a March 27 cover date). The Haditha episode began to receive wider coverage last month, when members of Congress revealed that Pentagon and military officials had disclosed that Marines may be charged in connection with the alleged massacre and that a cover-up might have taken place...
...move wouldn’t affect programming—WHRB would “still be primarily for the Harvard community,” Kalmus told The Crimson, and would still broadcast for 95 hours per week—the station would be able to reach a much wider audience. The station gained the approval of the Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities in May, and began the process of getting the go-ahead from the Federal Communications Committee.Approval for the switch finally came in February of 1957, and WHRB began construction of the equipment that would allow for FM broadcasting...
...academic paper that Anderson says influenced his theory, three management professors looked at the 80/20 rule in reverse. They upended the belief that the Internet's main benefit to consumers would be lower prices. Instead, they suggested that greater value online came from consumers having access to a wider selection of products and services. The key for businesses hoping to capitalize on the long tail, says Carnegie Mellon's Michael D. Smith, one of the paper's authors, is to cater to "significant heterogeneity in taste." Even though a majority of us may like U2 on our MP3 players...
...detailed and bleakly compelling account of what the hostages endured during the siege and of the anguish it produced in the U.S. The author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives a clear picture of both high-level decision making and the price paid by people on the ground. Maybe that's something more policy analysts should...