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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Hmmm, perhaps those Canadians are just a tad weird.  I have noticed that
mothers of some of the UGLIEST babies in the world think their children are
the next thing to Adonis or Venus!  I thought that mothers developed a type
of selective blindness when their children were born.  Or at least all the
mothes I've ever run into have.

As to the children running up and down isles in grocery stores.  Well,
again, it must be a Canadian thing because they sure come in all sizes,
shapes, colors and both ends of the beauty spectrum in the 39 states I've
been in.

So, was it more government that was being wasted?

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 7:19 AM
Subject: [Homestead] In case you still believe in fairness . . .


> Go ahead and admit it, the pretty rooster is the one you keep.
>
>
> All That Glisters Is Gold
>
> By MAUREEN DOWD
>
> Published: May 4, 2005
>
> I went out once with a guy who didn't care for his mother, partly because
> he felt she was not attractive enough. My brother Martin, on the other
> hand, tells our mom how proud he was when she picked him up from grade
> school because he thought she was the prettiest mother.
>
> And we've seen those studies showing that aesthetics is hard-wired in the
> brain - that even babies have an innate sense of beauty, choosing to gaze
> longer at lovelier faces.
>
> So it shouldn't be surprising to learn parents have the same bias. Still,
> the headline yesterday in Science Times was jolting: "Ugly Children May
Get
> Parental Short Shrift." As Nicholas Bakalar wrote: "Canadian researchers
> have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty
> children than they do ugly ones."