Moms Explore 'Deep Secrets' Surrounding Boys' Friendships

Research shows boys crave and can establish strong friendships, but cultural bias may create barriers to those desires. So how can parents help boys develop healthy long-lasting friendships? Host Michel Martin speaks with Tell Me More's regular parenting contributors Leslie Morgan Steiner and Jolene Ivey, and Niobe Way, author of Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/24/139912898/moms-explore-deep-secrets-surrounding-boys-friendships?ft=1&f=1003

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For Debt Panel's Becerra, No Egos While Negotiating

Before Congress created a supercommittee tasked with finding a way to slice $1 trillion from the federal deficit, California Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra said Social Security should be protected. Now that he's on the panel, he's going to have to work with Republicans who might not agree.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/22/139796687/for-debt-panels-becerra-no-egos-while-negotiating?ft=1&f=1014

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Weaving 'Charlotte's Web'

In his new book, The Story of Charlotte's Web, writer Michael Sims traces the life of E.B. White. From White's childhood in suburban New York and rural Maine, to his adult years as a New Yorker writer, Sims shows how White's experiences in nature shaped his classic novel.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139790016/weaving-charlottes-web?ft=1&f=1007

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Romney To Try Stealing Some Of Obama's Jobs-Speech Thunder

How better for Mitt Romney to show that he intends to take it right at President Obama on the jobs issue than to plan a major post-Labor Day speech on jobs, just like the president?

Romney announced Monday on Fox News that he intends to provide his job-creation plan on Sept. 6 in Nevada, a battleground state, the day before the next scheduled Republican presidential candidates' debate.

But it's also within days of when Obama has said he will his new and improved job creation plan.

For Romney, a speech that week accomplishes the following: It gives him another chance to allow voters envision the race as one between himself and Obama.

 

His campaign clearly aims to give Republican voters desperate to beat Obama the sense that Romney is the only one capable of doing that.

It's a strategy that wants Republican voters to look past the current mini-dramas heading into next year's primaries to focus on the end game.

A major jobs speech now also demonstrates Romney's national campaign experience and organization. It takes a staff and access to economic experts to come up with a credible jobs plan.

And it takes informed and credentialed surrogates to talk about it after a speech. Again, this is all meant to get voters to see in Romney the strongest Republican candidate against Obama.

The White House has not yet provided a date for the president's jobs speech. But with Romney now planning to give his pre-buttal to Obama on Tuesday and the GOP debate at the Reagan Library on Wednesday, that leaves the rest of the week for Obama's speech.

Waiting until the end of the week would also give Obama the chance to criticize the approaches of Romney and the other GOP candidates.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/08/23/139874911/romney-to-try-stealing-some-of-obamas-jobs-speech-thunder?ft=1&f=1057

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Gadhafi's Son Reappears In Tripoli

The dramatic reappearance of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi in Tripoli has cast a pall of gloom over the rebel headquarters in Benghazi. The rebels had announced Gadhafi's capture just 24 hours earlier, promising to hand him over to the International Criminal Court. But the mood in Benghazi changed dramatically later in the day when rebel forces stormed and seized Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139889658/gadhafis-son-reappears-in-tripoli?ft=1&f=1004

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