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Provides instructions to children on making paper flowers for their mothers. Materials needed; Cutting and gluing.

Federal agencies issued more than 40,000 pages of regulations in the Federal Register. The Department of Education was one such agency and on December 22, 2003 it provided a preview of forthcoming regulations that will address some of the most heavily scrutinized issues in K-12 education. In the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the right of the Scouts to exclude homosexuals and controversies over public schools treatment of the Scouts, Congress included language in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 guaranteeing the Boy Scouts equal access to schools.

The article reports on the long-standing battle concerning the management of the New York Magazine Inc. It states that Rupert Murdoch, an Australian owner of 10 major newspapers and 13 magazines, has expressed his interest in acquiring the publishing company by making a surprise bid to win its control. It mentions that Clay Felker, the magazine's founding editor, has inquired help from various millionaires worldwide to prevent his takeover attempt. It also notes the implication of the transaction on Murdoch's presence in U.S. journalism.

The article focuses on the rise of feminists groups in U.S. to oppose sexism. It relates on the Dock of the Bay affair wherein several women burned the copies of the underground paper "Dock of the Bay" because it contains a sex sheet. According to Lionel Tiger, there will be a general women's upheaval incited by deep human and economic conditions. It mentions several women's groups including Redstockings, National Organization for Women (NOW) and Women's Radical Action Project (WRAP).

The article focuses on the comic strip "Doonesburry," by Garry Trudeau, its characters, stories, and literary styles. It states that the comic strip episode of Trudeau is an opinion and views about American life which takes Trudeau power and originality to convert the White House into a cartoon museum. It discusses the characters in the comic strip including armchair liberal Michael J. Doonesbury, young priest Reverend Scot Sloan, and campus radical Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer. It also explores the styles of Trudeau in writing the comic strip including the use of boxcar format, giving political comment with gentle humor, and not anthropomorphizing. It says that the fundamental message of the comic is that public figures and public debates have decency and lunacy.

Discusses the materialism and culture in the Soviet Union with emphasis on socialism. Comparison of the Soviet culture with that of the U.S.; Degree of satisfaction of the elementary wants of food, clothing and shelter; Popularity of opera and symphonic music in the country; Comparison between the sale of books in the Soviet Union and the U.S.; Establishment and improvement of social security by the Soviet system; Care and protection received by the children.

The article focuses on the controversy regarding the midi skirts in the U.S. Many women found the new fashion style disgusting, however, fashion publisher John Burr Fairchild vehemently promoted the new clothing through his periodical "Women's Wear Daily" (WWD). He had decreed that the year 1970 would be year of midi skirts. Through WWD he relentlessly pushed the midi fashion. It continuously campaigned in stories, gossip items and pictures telling that the whole American women would change and the adherent of mini skirts would be left in cold without a fashion to embrace. The article concludes that, midi's real popularity would soon be tested when the weather would be warmer and Fairchild would have to have a clean victory to retain his image as the number one influence in fashion.

The article features businessman and former Houston, Texas mayor Roy Mark Hofheinz. He owns Astroworld, the baseball team Houston Astros, and stakes in Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey. He integrated services for African Americans and whites without publicity when he was elected as judge at the age of 24, and fired the city treasurer who allegedly transferred city-purchased land to his own when he became mayor. He sold papers and booked dance groups when he was 15 to help his mother when his father died and earned his law degree at the age of 19.

The article discusses the highlights of the American Medical Association convention that was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1925. Several scientific papers were read, while the House of Delegates debated on the policies of ethical medicine. The doctors passed a resolution that considered whisky, gin, beer and other alcoholic liquors as drugs. Doctor Wendel C. Phillips was elected president of the association for 1926-1927.

The article provides information about events and performances for children taking place in New York City in February 2007. The Gotham Comedy Club hosts Kids 'n Comedy on February 25. "Dandelion," a musical about evolution, is performed by the Paper Bag Players at several locations throughout the city. "Claying Around" is an event sponsored by the Dahesh Museum, taking place on February 24, in which children learn about working with clay to create art.

The article offers the information on the immigrants of the United States. Topics discussed including the idea of the nation as both a beacon and a refuge has softened the landing for millions of people who arrived without papers and over time became Americans; views of president Donald Trumph on Salvadorans; and Action for Childhood Arrivals, in undoing the founding assumption of national identity since at least Plymouth Rock.

The article discusses corrupt practices involved in the adoption of Ugandan children in the U.S. Topics include deceptive practices used to convince parents to relinquish their parental rights, the role of the nonprofit organization Council on Accreditation in regulating U.S.-based international adoptions, and false claims about orphanages in Uganda relate to adoptions without the informed consent of birth parents.

The article reports on the refusal of the Soviet Union's Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (KGB) to accept the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents provided by Edwin Gibbons Moore II, former official of the CIA, in place of 200,000 dollars. It says that the documents contain the details on the internal structure of the agency, CIA officials and informants, and training locations and safe houses of the CIA. It mentions that Moore was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and was charged with transfer of defense information to foreign government, U.S. property embezzlement, and unauthorized ownership of documents. According to a U.S. intelligence official, the Soviets let go of an important intelligence information.

This article presents information on books like "Follow the Leader," by Clyde Brion Davis. Like any other many novelists Davis seems to exhaust his creativity on the childhood of his central character. The section of his book that deals with Charles Martel as a puny, sniveling youngster in a small city in Missouri is so superior to what follows as almost to be different in kind, once Charley returns from the war and becomes a power in the community he begins to read like a smooth-paper success story.

Each spring when Francis Meeks opens her Richmond Hill home to hundreds of Bryan County, Georgia third-graders, she opens a book on ancient and living histories. In May, 2002, 300 school-children gathered on the steps of the veranda of her home to hear those history lessons from a woman who has watched Richmond Hill, Georgia march from rural poverty to a position as a state leader in population and economic growth. For decades, the region's economy had been dominated by auto manufacturing colossus Henry Ford, who employed 1,000 people on his Richmond Hill plantation, and by International Paper, a giant timber processor. INSET: Bryan County At-A-Glance.

The author discusses issues related to college basketball in the U.S. as of December 16, 1974. He says that the best basketball game in the U.S. is the Missouri Valley Conference. His experience of being a basketball fan is explored. A fan of the Bradley Braves basketball team of Bradley University who asked Satan to let the team win in a game against the team of the University of Cincinnati is also featured.

Explains how parents can save tax-free money for offspring by putting the child to work for them. How business owners get a deduction for their children's wages and children get a Roth individual retirement account (IRA); Rules that must be followed; Child labor laws in the United States.

The article discusses the potential effects of a father's environmental and lifestyle exposures to the health of his unborn children. Other topics include a study on rodents showing the effect of paternal nutrition on a daughter's breast cancer risk, the effect on sperm epigenome and offspring of paternal lifestyle, obesity, and nutrition, as well as the effects of the prepregnancy health of both parents on the health of their future child.

The article reports on the violence involved in professional sports in the U.S. It notes several incidents involving violence in sports including the event where New York Yankee Lou Piniella slid into Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk with enough force to trigger a bloody fight, the incident where Ricky Sobers and Rick Barry gave up basketball for boxing during the National Basketball Association (NBA) play-offs, and the incidence where pitcher Lynn McGlothen's hit two New York Met batters. It states that the violence indicates lawlesness in the world of sports. It reflects that more than sport is mangled when moral rules are bent and in the end, violence does not affect players who are cheapened and injured but on children and adults who watch them and followed what they see on stands.

Discusses the rumor claiming that Mexican children routinely were being kidnapped, brought to the U.S. and murdered for their vital organs, which were then transplanted into sick American children with rich parents. Reference to articles related to the rumor, published in some Mexican newspapers; Fear generated by the rumor among the Mexicans; Efforts of the Mexican and the U.S. government to dispel the fear; Reason behind the failure of efforts to defeat the rumor.

The article discusses the report of Martin Prager Mayer concerning the condition of the educational system in the U.S. It emphasizes that the teachers who do not understand math, foreign languages and unequipped to carry out new methods remain the primary problem in most schools. It also notes that the over reliance on I.Q. levels contribute to the low number of educable children.

The article offers opinions of several people on the financial aid they receive from the U.S. welfare department. Jerry Fuller, an electrical engineer, says that the welfare does not pay him much to cater to the needs of his family, and Mary Sands, a widowed mother, mentions that she had to face cruelty and indifference from the welfare department. Lawrence Brooks, a lobsterman, says he survives the harsh winter in Milbridge, Maine in a centrally-heated apartment provided by the welfare.

The article reports on the war damage inflicted upon a tiny village Binh Thoi, located near Saigon, Vietnam during the Vietnam war fought between the U.S. and Vietnam from 1961-1975. As reported, before this war Binh Thoi was a prosperous farm village with fertile land having coconut and orange groves. But the U.S. troops and Vietnam's guerrillas turned it into a wasteland. Chu Thao, a teacher from a nearby village divulges that the whole plantation was destroyed. The surface of the earth was left barren. Farmers of the region faced great difficulty in making their soil usable. This Binh Thoi episode, entitled "Resuscitation of the Dead Earth," became quite popular worldwide and also won a second prize in an essay competition organized on nationalism by a local newspaper.

The loss of a child is one of the most profoundly stressful events an adult can experience, but perinatal hospice may be an important resource for the family's wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand how a group of American and Italian parents of infants affected by life-limiting or terminal conditions and treated with personalised comfort measures represents, with a metaphorical statement, the experience of perinatal hospice care. Thirty five questionnaires were collected and included 13 parents from Italy and 22 from the US. Parents represent their experience as positive and rich with lovely family moments and, although it is also a hard path, they consider it as an important gift. Other metaphors elected were related to spirituality and transcendence, underlying the need of parents to express and share their spiritual values and beliefs. Finally, parents also perceived an overall support from care providers and felt as if they were part of the same family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the author's trip to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where he went to high school, which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The author brought paper and pencils to child victims of the storm and describes what they drew.

The article reports that six eighth-grade girls who attend Blocker Middle School in Texas City, Texas were suspended from school after taking a liquid form of methamphetamine.

The article presents information relating to children belonging to the economically weaker section of the society. In the business-minded ethos of our age, any money one may spend on children of poor people must be proven to be economically utilitarian and justifiable in cost-effective terms. Elements of childhood that bear no possible connection to the world of enterprise and profit get no honor in the pedagogic world right now, nor do they in the economic universe to which it seems increasingly subservient.

The article presents information on the book "Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood," by Binjamin Wilkomirski. Raising consciousness about children's vulnerability to trauma and loss has been one of leading projects, and its recognition of Wilkomirski's work on children's memories of the Holocaust comes amid a tightening media vise from the New York Times to 60 Minutes on his alleged fraud. Some of Wilkomirski's readers, untroubled by issues of factual truth and deeply moved by his talent in immersing himself in the child survivor's experience, may simply accept the memoir as a novel.

The article discusses how the real estate market affects a family's readiness to bear children. Based on a study by Lisa Dettling and Melissa Schetinni Kearney on the reproductive rate of women ages 20 to 44 in 66 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. from 1990 through 2006, there is greater equivalence between pregnancy and the prices of homes rather than pregnancy and the unemployment.

The article focuses on the U.S. initiative called Operation Babylift that happened when Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975 which aimed to get the children out of Viet Nam. Bobby Nofflet, who works in the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) in Saigon, notes the death of children due to malnutrition in the orphanages during the crisis with babies being left in front of the agency while mothers begged to take them. The move of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights to file a class-action suit on behalf of all children who may not in fact be orphans that include those who have been ruled eligible for adoption is cited.

The article discusses issues about the use of sexist texts in schoolbooks that teach children reading, writing and the roles they will later play as adult men and women in the U.S. It mentions that school boards using sexist texts may be sued under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, a law that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded educational program, since the government helps finance such books. It notes that the Committee to Study Sex Discrimination in the Kalamazoo Public Schools in Michigan filed a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare alleging that 80% of the leading characters in a book read by elementary school students are boys or men.

Editorial. Reports that American children are often encouraged to grow up to be the president of the country even if their line of interest lies in some other sphere. Factors that have boosted the belief that any ordinary person can rise to the presidency; Advantage associated with monarchial system of government; Reasons why the author abandoned his plan to become the president of the country.

Focuses on socio-political developments in the United States. Information on a goodwill tour of American cities by Katerina Lycheva, a girl from the Soviet Union; Sponsorship of Lycheva's tour by the Children As Peacemakers Foundation of San Francisco; Response of Lycheva on the question of difference between Russian and American children; Focus on efforts to deal with teenage pregnancy; Information on a court case in which an arts-and-crafts teacher who got pregnant out of wedlock was fired by the Omaha Girls Club on the grounds that she was a negative role model for the girls.

U.S. President Bill Clinton's inaugural address envisioned a "land of new promise" in which "the knowledge and power of the information age will be with in reach of every classroom." Recycled slogans sometimes seem to be the curse of education policy discussion in the U.S., and there is no set of slogans more neurotically reiterated these days than "the need for goals and standards" and "criteria" and "measurements of outcome" in public schools. These goals would be attained not by such seemingly essential strategies as spending money to deliver preschool education to poor children, but solely by the cost-free exercise of raising expectations, holding children and their teachers more accountable.

The article discusses matters related to social and political issues of the world. It states that the U.S. Census Bureau reported in mid-June the widest gap between rich and poor in this country since the end of World War II. The devastating local consequences of economic liberalization occupied center stage in the recent elections in India and Russia. Globalization is the central political phenomenon of the day, generating new and fundamental inequities as regions and nations compete for corporate investment, lowering wage, environmental and human rights standards. The article also reports on the U.S. Democrats' Families First Agenda. details. The agenda says that Democrats will "require" insurance companies to offer kids-only health plans.

The article focuses on the decision of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy to run for President against U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 U.S. election. It states that Kennedy emphasized the failure of Carter's leadership and reject his view that the government has a limited power to solve problems, while Carter attacks him with ridicule. It says that the accomplishment of Kennedy in the Senate does not mean he has the sharp intelligence of John Kennedy and the passionate conviction of Robert Kennedy, but carries the burden of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick Island, the separation from his wife Joan Kennedy and a reputation of womanizing. It discusses the campaign and position of Kennedy on various issues such as in health care insurance trade, and economic regulations.

The article reports on the judicial system in the U.S. It mentions the overcrowding of lawsuits in the in several courts in the U.S. including the local courts; the federal courts and even the supreme courts have created more power for judges and an endless delay of litigations. It also raises the tendency of usurping an authority which is not even vested to them; but are quick to assert that they are simply enforcing the laws. It also cites Federal Judge Prentice H. Marshall who halted discriminatory hiring and promotion practices in Chicago despite mayor Richard Daley's opposition to the decision.

The article offers information on the presence of several young women in Hollywood films in U.S. It mentions that the prostitute roles of Brooke Shields in the film "Pretty Baby" and Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver," did not lead to a series of pornographic feature films. It says that Diane Lane played the role of an American child who fell in love with a French boy in the film "A Little Romance," which was directed by George Roy Hill. It states that Tatum O'Neal, who played a shy and rich girl in "Little Darlings," asserts that her father is the greatest influence in her life. Meanwhile, director Lamont Johnson notes that movie children were not always similar to real children.

The article discusses the February 1979 interruption in the television (TV) industry in the U.S. It states that the networks, reported by Nielsen and Arbitron television census, expended 13 million dollars to surpass one another and attract more audiences. It also mentions that National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) president Fred Silverman was disappointed when their two TV programs attained only 32% of the audience. It also says that on February 11, American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) ranks first while Columbia Broadcasting Co. (CBS) places second and National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) ranks third. Moreover, producer Robert Wood noted that the February commotion is not beneficial. Furthermore, stations suggested that the tougher they are, the better ratings and more money they have.

The article discusses the profits gathered by author Mario Puzo in his novels and books in the U.S. It notes that Puzo has made around 1 million dollars for his work "Godfather I," 100,000 dollars for "Godfather II" script free plus 10% of the net, and 1 million dollars, minus legal expenses, for "Earthquake," among others. It cites that the New American Library has won the bidding of the paperback auction, in which it paid 2.2 million dollars for the rights to reprint Mario Puzo's new novel "Fools Die," plus 350,000 dollars to reprint his all-time bestselling saga, "The Godfather." It states that entertainment industry approach and inflation have pushed the cost of paperbacks, higher than the average for most commodities, and demands more aggressive salesmanship.

The article offers information on the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), with particular focus on its programs that were considered corrupting and wasteful. It mentions that HEW offers regulations and funds for the handicapped and the disabled, gives money to the needy and opposes racial discrimination. It states that HEW, headed by secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr., is recognized as an institution which have the most impact on the American life. It says that various criticism were expressed against HEW in connection to the range of programs it established. It highlights the HEW programs which became corrupting and wasteful including their programs on disability insurance, hospital costs, and student loans as well as HEW's range of programs that are worthy in concept.

The article profiles the U.S. cartoonist, Saul Steinberg, who was born in Bucharest, Romania noted for his caricature of famous people. It is stated that Steinberg's father, Moritz was a printer, bookbinder and boxmaker. It mentions that Steinberg has done 56 cover designs and innumerable drawings and built standards of precision and graphic intelligence that had not existed in American illustration before him. It cites the exhibition of Steinberg's 258 drawings watercolors, paintings and collections launched at New York City's Whitney Museum. It notes that one of his keenest inventions or adaptations is the urban guerrilla seen as Mickey Mouse, which according to Steinberg is sexless, without character or age that represents the junk-food people.