In October 2013, Ratsie's made the cut on Thrillist's nationwide list of "Best College Drunk Foods," an award that perhaps Falamoun won't pass along to his mother as evidence of her superior child-raising skills.
The story, based on a children's book by the cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, involves a race of stern Martian women who subjugate their men and kidnap Earth mothers because of their superior child-rearing skills.
What about Superior Children, so called?
First and foremost the commission would be licensing quality people, people who are likely to produce superior children.
To call "The Lord of the Rings" superior children's literature is not meant as denigration, because it seems ideally suited to superior children — not clever ones, that is, but those who stand on the crumbling brink of puberty and gaze both forward and back.
I had read every line of Tolkien then available, CS Lewis's Narnia series, and a couple of hundred superior children's books, not all of them chosen for their silent reinforcement of bourgeois values.
Science 2.0 founder Hank Campbell argued that once it becomes possible to engineer "superior" qualities in human beings, then a parent's only moral choice would be to have genetically superior children.
He called the developmental process elective breeding but it is sometimes referred to as shavian eugenics, largely because he thought it was driven by a "Life Force" that led women — subconsciously — to select the mates most likely to give them superior children.
Children with NF1 tolerated carboplatin and vincristine well and had tumor response rate and EFS that were superior to children without NF1.
A 10-day regimen may be superior in children who have experienced an episode of AOM within the preceding month, a known risk factor for resistant bacterial infection in the otitis-prone patient.
