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The science of healthy baby sleep

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By Amanda RuggeriFeatures correspondent Scientists are cracking the secrets of safe and healthy baby sleep (Getty Images)Sleep regressions aren't real. Night wakes are normal, and protect against SIDS. And 12 hours of sleep isn't a gold standard. Here's what scientists want us to know about baby sleep. Mention you've had a baby, and almost everyone will ask one thing: how is she sleeping? After all, many exhausted parents look forward to the time when their baby finally sleeps through the night. Read More...

The very 2015 tale of a selfie, a black and a white

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As 2015 draws to a close, the Hartford Courant is revisiting a local controversy that contained all the elements of the year’s biggest headlines: race, education and social media usage gone awry. It started, like so many stories do these days, with a selfie. Shelley Best, an A.M.E. minister and member of the Hartford, Conn., board of education, was at a training session for city educators in September when she took out her phone and framed herself in a photo with a few of the teachers present at the meeting, most prominently a teacher at Noah Webster MicroSociety Magnet School named Heather Zottola. Read More...

Bernard Kalb family, wife, children, parents, siblings

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Bernard Kalb passed away on Sunday at his home in North Bethesda, Maryland, according to his family. Kalb was a longtime journalist and the original anchor of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” show. He was 100. According to Marvin Kalb, Kalb’s younger brother, complications from a recent fall were the cause of his death. A CNN biography states that Kalb spent more than three decades covering international news for CBS News, NBC News, and The New York Times while traveling the world. Read More...