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Rare but Deadly 2 Screening for all? At a cost of about $70 to $120 per infant, testing all babies appears to be an obvious answer to the disasters that can befall a few. In states where advanced screening is already in effect, the cost is either included in the hospital bill, covered by the state or charged to parents. To hear the stories of the Allen and Cline families, universal
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Rare but Deadly By Susan Brink /©2005, U.S. News & World Report. All rights reserved with permission. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Simple, cheap blood tests could save thousands of kids’ lives every year 1 Two cousins, two babies, two outcomes. The six years between the births of Toni Cline’s daughter and her cousin Sharon Allen
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China’s Humble Maestro Tutors Piano Prodigies 2 A dedicated teacher Dan, an energetic 65-year-old, grew up in China’s western hinterlands near the city of Chongqing. His music-loving physician father acquired a piano. “We had a set time to practice. I would secretly turn the clock ahead so I could play less time,” Dan says, breaking out in hearty laughter. Imp
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China’s Humble Maestro Tutors Piano Prodigies By Tim Johnson /©2005, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. 1 Just over the border from Hong Kong, the shriek of car horns and clatter of machinery fill the air of Shenzhen, China. Once inside the thick doors of the Shenzhen School of the Arts, however, the grating noise dissipates. Through those
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Five Digital Camera Mistakes 2 Mistake 4: Misusing the flash When taking indoor photos, the harsh, bright light of your camera flash can often overwhelm ambient light, giving your subjects that “deerin- the-headlights” look. Today’s digital cameras — particularly SLRs — perform remarkably well in low light. Try a few pictures without the flash to determine if the ambient light is
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Five Digital Camera Mistakes by Vance Fry Everyone who buys a digital camera starts out as a digicam newbie. Avoid these five blunders and you won’t look like a newbie for long 1 Mistake 1: Not learning the equipment Digital cameras are expensive, feature-loaded photographic tools. Yet many new owners toss the user’s manual aside and stick to the camera’s “dum
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Little Brains Big Research 2 The roots of empathy One Meltzoff experiment, with 18-montholds, demonstrated how babies understand other people’s intentions. The babies watched adults try to pull apart a toy that had secretly been glued shut. Given the same toy, but not glued, the babies completed the task. Those elements, Meltzoff says, are the roots of empathy. “Human beings are
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Little Brains Big Research By Paula Bock / ©2005, The Seattle Times, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Research reveals more of what happens inside an infant’s little mind 1 What do babies know, and when do they learn it? When is the best time for them to learn a language? Baby-brain research is now hot—a topic that
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Overcoming Overcommitment By Melissa Stoppler. Used with permission of About, Inc. Which can be found on the Web at www.about.com. All rights reserved. The key to effective time management lies in our perception of available Most busy people are not strangers to overcommitment. Taking on too many responsibilities and then being unable to cope with the resulting demands on our
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Stay on Top of Your Reading By Richard G. Ensman Jr. Thousands of pages of reading material are put in front of you each month. How can you manage to digest it all? They just keep coming and coming: newspapers, magazines, professional journals, reports and stacks of other published material dumped on your desk each day. Most people can’t make a dent in such a pile, so they
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Optimists Blessed with Better Health 2 Trying to answer “why?” It could be that a propensity for pessimism, anxiety and these brain diseases share a common risk factor—a gene or some quirk of brain chemistry. Another possibility, Rocca says, is that a pessimistic outlook leads to more anxiety, which can disrupt levels of stress-related hormones, or knock the body’s endocrine
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Optimists Blessed with Better Health by Julia Sommerfeld / ©2005 The Seattle Times, Knight Ridder Newspapers. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International. Do you usually look on the bright side? Find the sliver lining? Or do you take a dim view, focus on the dark clouds and brace for the worst? 1 There are optimists — and then there are the people who wa
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Animals’ Early Warning Systems 2 Massive migrations Wildlife photographer Mike Blair remembers the day he witnessed how waterfowl can sense change in the weather. That morning the weather was mild, with a few snow geese on the marshes at the wildlife refuge. But as the day progressed, flight after flight of geese crossed the sky and settled on the wetlands. The next day temperatures plum
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Animals’ Early Warning Systems By Brent Frazee / ©2005 The Kansas City Star, Knight Ridder Newspaper. Distributed by Tribune Media Service International. Biologists report wildlife’s amazing ability to sense trouble long before humans do 1 When Joe Ward went fishing in Florida one day last September, he didn’t need a weather report to tell him that big trouble was
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Medicine from the Sea 2 Bioprospecting the seas Researchers largely overlooked the oceans as a source of pharmaceuticals until scuba technology was first tested in 1943. Among the pioneers of marine bioprospecting was organic chemist Paul Scheuer. In 1950, he began to collect and study an array of underwater organisms—in particular, soft, stationary creatures. Scheuer was intrigued that
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Medicine from the Sea By Kevin Krajick / Originally appeared in Smithsonian, May 2004. Reprinted by permission. From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean’s depths in search of new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments 1 Sea slime, it turns out, is unusually adept at producing useful biochemicals. Over the past 30 years, researchers have extract
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Art Blended with Heart 2 Miele cites water as an inspiration for his gowns. In the mouths of most designers, it’s a cliché strutted out with any old blue dress. Miele’s collection gives there reference meaning, finally. Many of his gowns are built on a base of printed silk beneath multiple layers of chiffon, giving the appearance of a watery overlay. Sometimes Miele traces, crayon-lik
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Art Blended with Heart By Kathryn Wexler /©2005 The Miami Herald, Knight Ridder Newspaper. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International Dresses designed by Carlos Miele draw double takes before the eager buyer takes one home 1 Designer Carlos Miele doesn’t sketch dresses. He composes them. Draping fabric over a mannequin, he cuts and he pins, giving form to his
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Manners Matter 2 Both for kids and adults Stressing table manners from childhood through adulthood sounds a bit old-fashioned, but it’s part of the lifelong pursuit of happiness, according to both those who teach etiquette and the professionals who validate its importance. Sinclair started teaching children’s etiquette about 15 years ago. “Parents are so glad I’m doing somet
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Manners Matter By Karen Herzog / ©2005 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Knight Ridder Newspaper. Distributed by Tribune Media Services International 1 Table manners aren’t child’s play. Children who don’t learn to wait their turn for the potatoes or to chew with their mouths closed may face challenges later in life—especially in their careers. “The number one reaso
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