Love, Loss, and New Beginnings: Harris Wofford's Remarkable Journey

1. Steph Solis, USA TODAY April 25, 2016 Harris Wofford, 90, talks tenderly of his two loves – his late wife Clare and his soon-to-be spouse Matthew Charlton – in a New York Times opinion piece on Sunday, April 24, 2016. Clare died in January 1996. Harris and Carlton plan to marry April 30. • Former Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Harris Wofford, 90, announced in The New York Times that he will marry a man at the end of this month, 20 years after the death of his wife. The news might surprise some, Wofford noted. His wife, Clare, died of leukemia in January 1996. After he lost her, he said, he never thought he would find love again. • "At age 70, I did not imagine that I would fall in love again and remarry," he wrote at the start of his Times column. "But the past 20 years have made my life a story of two great loves." • Wofford went on to describe the significance of his 48-year marriage and how a new, unlikely romance developed — he at 75 and his partner-to-be, Matthew Charlton, at 25. In their trips around the country and to Europe, they developed a bond that led to their 15-year relationship. • The takeaway from Wofford's announcement is not just that he found love again, but also that he found the nation he once served is changing faster than he imagined. As he sees it, it's for the better.

2. Apr. 27, 2016, Maggie Fox NBC News Spanking makes kids aggressive, less successful, study finds Most Americans still strongly support the idea of spanking kids, but a new study says spanking doesn't work and can make kids aggressive later on. • While kids may not immediately defy their parents after a spanking, they're more likely to be aggressive later, to have a worse relationship with their parents, and to grow up to have alcohol and substance abuse problems, the new study shows. • The team at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan focused on open-handed spanking — not beatings. They wanted to see if the time-honored practice really works as well as people believe it does. • It doesn't, they report in the Journal of Family Psychology. • "The upshot of the study is that spanking increases the likelihood of a wide variety of undesired outcomes for children. Spanking thus does the opposite of what parents usually want it to do," said Andrew Grogan-Kaylor of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, who worked on the study…. • The more kids are spanked, the greater the risk • Studies have shown that spanking can damage a child's IQ or ability to learn; that it trigger aggressiveness and worsens behavior. Gershoff says the pattern is consistent when a large number of studies are put together.

3. Prov 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly. • Prov 19:18 Chasten your son while there is hope, and do not set your heart on his destruction. • Prov 22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of correction will drive it far from him. • Prov 23:13-14 Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die. You shall beat him with a rod, and deliver his soul from hell. • Prov 29:15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. Proverbs on Corporal Punishment

4. Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film. • An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception. • Scientists had seen the phenomenon occur in other animals but it is the first time is has been also shown to happen in humans. Apr. 26, 2016, Sarah Knapton Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg

5. Researchers believe the monarch was one of the earliest people to rule Europe in the Stone Age. His identity remains a mystery, but scientists believe he fathered a group of nobles who then spread across Europe… • 'Half of the European population is descended from just one man. We can only speculate as to what happened. The best explanation is that they may have resulted from advances in technology that could be controlled by small groups of men.' • The results revealed when populations exploded at several points in history, beginning 55,000 years ago. Such 'bursts of extreme expansion' could be due to intrepid communities moving to new regions with a surplus of resources and the sharing of technologies helped the groups to thrive. Apr. 25, 2016, Sarah Griffiths Half of all Western European men are descendants of a Bronze Age 'king' who lived 4,000 years ago. That's according to the largest ever study of global genetic variation in the Y chromosome.

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