| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | It is a steamy summer afternoon in Houston, where 4-year-old Makenna Franks has been in open-heart surgery at Texas Children's Hospital for more than five hours. All went well. Now the groggy little girl is wheeled into the cardiovascular intensive-care unit, where nurses crowd around her and exchange greetings with her parents, Brandi and Bobby Franks. Like many of the more than 20,000 kids admitted each year, Makenna has been here before. This is her third major heart surgery. The goal of this early August visit is to make it her last one. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | For me, having newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit was like living in purgatory. After months of anticipation--filled with happy tasks like decorating the nursery--suddenly I wasn't sure when my twins might leave the hospital or whether they'd be disabled when they came home. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | While we rant about our failing healthcare system and toss about muddy statistics on infant mortality as proof, we may be ignoring a pediatric crisis looming larger each year: the more than half a million babies coming into the world weeks to months before they should. Devoid of their mother's womb, these little ones, some smaller than the palm of your hand, confront risks and suffering simply not captured by the statistic released earlier this year: Preterm babies, those born six to 20 weeks too soon, make up over 12 percent of America's newborns. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | FORT RILEY, KAN.?One of the rare Iraq points on which Washington pundits, Capitol Hill insiders, and Pentagon officials can agree these days is that the much-hyped Iraq report card due to Congress on September 15 will contain no revelations. On the military side, Gen. David Petraeus, who has overseen the "surge" of U.S. forces into Iraq this summer, will note some areas of progress, some causes for concern, and ask Congress for time. That means time for the temporary troop buildup to show more results and for Iraqi pols to forge ahead with political reconciliation?if not at the national level, then locally, where there have been some promising developments. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | When the U.S. intelligence community took the unusual step last week of publicly weighing in on the situation in Iraq, there was something in its report for both President Bush and his growing number of critics. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | Muhammad Salah has an unusual problem for a suburban Chicago father of five. His assets are frozen, and it is technically illegal for him to purchase so much as a Slurpee at 7-Eleven. For the past nine years, Salah, a U.S. citizen, has been on a list of designated terrorists issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. Accused of fundraising for the terrorist wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, Salah has to apply for a license to get a job or even to pay a doctor. "He lives primarily from the charity of his community," says his lawyer, Matthew Piers. "You could argue that even that charity is in violation of the restrictions." | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | CHICAGO?Far from the centers of power and privilege that have spawned so many commanders in chief, it's an unlikely place to incubate a future president. But the seemingly endless clumps of drab brick apartment buildings and patchy lawns on Chicago's South Side are where Sen. Barack Obama learned some of his most enduring lessons about politics, leadership, and the paths to social change. His experiences here, in fact, amount to a Rosetta stone that reveals the essence of the man who has catapulted out of nowhere into contention for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2008. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | BLACKSBURG, VA.? Ryan McConnell says he'll be happy when all he hears about is football. The sports editor of the Collegiate Times, the Virginia Tech student newspaper, says the sport is the school's soul. "This time of year, when the leaves are turning, I refuse to leave campus for weeks because it's so exciting," says McConnell, looking out the third-floor newsroom window at students dodging raindrops on their way to class. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | Karl Rove knew exactly what he was doing. In a round of interviews as he exited the White House, the man President Bush called the "architect" of his re-election was designing something else: a push for Hillary Clinton's nomination. "I think she's likely to be the nominee," he told Rush Limbaugh. "And I think she's fatally flawed." All observations that, coming from anyone else, might be considered routine punditry. But when Rove speaks, the political class pays attention?usually with good reason. And this time, Rove's eagerness to engage on the question of Clinton was no spontaneous event. Ever a helpful fellow, he's happy to drive Democrats into the arms of Hillary by taking her on. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | On a Tuesday evening in early summer, a very pregnant Lindsay Androski Kelly walked in her door to exuberant shouts of "Mommy! Mommy!" from her 2-year-old son, George. She dropped her laptop in her home office and listened to the boy tell her about his adventures on the playground. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | Madison Avenue has created a new kind of mother to reflect the latest work-family trends. Dubbed "alpha moms," they project independence, balance, and competence at both work and home, in contrast to past images of harried working moms and über-domestic stay-at-home moms. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | A full-time job doesn't have to destroy all hope of family dinners or afternoon playtime. Women can increase their chances of getting on the new mommy track through successful negotiation both at work and at home. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | How much worse can things get in the housing market? With mortgage lenders folding, home builders bleeding red ink, and foreclosures filling the "public notice" section, the answer might seem as ominous as the "price reduced" placards that increasingly top the for-sale signs now littering America's lawns. | | More information |
| Sun, 26 Aug 2007 | | "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks...liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system.... People will work harder, live a more moral life." That was how Herbert Hoover once described Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's unsympathetic attitude as the Great Depression began to unfold. | | More information |
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