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...calculated to "show the country and the world that the government can cope with nature's worst." The Chinese government merely wanted to rescue as many people as possible and give support and assurance to traumatized survivors and the devastated families of those killed. The death toll as I write is 60,000 and rising. Many urgent problems remain, and many touching stories of bravery, sacrifice and mateship are still untold. Angel Lau, Sydney...
...Arthur Agatston; No. No. It all really happened accidentally. I never set out to write a diet book. My interest is as a clinical and academic cardiologist with an interest in prevention...
Overall, the new study found, regardless of the race of their adoptive parents, black adopted children were no different from other kids in levels of self-esteem. But, the authors write, "black children had a greater sense of racial pride when their parents acknowledged racial identity, moved to integrated neighborhoods, and provided African American role models. Black children whose white parents minimized the importance of racial identity were reluctant to identify themselves racially." But is it necessarily catastrophic to eschew a strong racial identity? Not everybody thinks so. "All adopted children face challenges with being adopted," says R. Richard Banks...
...last time I saw Sydney Pollack he was doing me a gallant favor. He had become, in recent years, my narrator of choice for the documentaries I produce and write. He had done the voice-over for one of them in the summer of 2007. Sometime after Labor Day it became clear to me that I needed him to do a bit of additional taping. By that time it was also clear to me that Sydney was ill with the cancer that carried him off Monday. I was quite prepared to replace the work he had already done...
...Shiva is Suri's own pachyderm of a child. It's a huge and lumbering novel that took seven years to write and leaves hardly any ground unfurrowed. But Meera's growth from narcissism to selflessness is too slow, and her core epiphany - what it means to be a parent - is a cliché. Suri's cyclorama of a newborn, metropolitan India, where streets are clogged not with carts but cars, can be engrossing. Too bad a prima donna stands center stage, blocking the view...