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Most of the people I know in early childhood are friendly and peace-loving, utterly dedicated to non-violent conflict resolution. However, this life philosophy apparently does not preclude many of us from wielding guns on occasion-or so I judge from the Swiss cheese appearance of our feet these days. By that I mean that our feet are full of holes, and we seem to be doing most of the shooting ourselves.I have been in this field for 25 years now, and everything that happens I look at through the perspective of that history. Younger readers will simply have to forgive me for that habit. I know how far we have come during that time. From a tiny group of little old ladies in navy sneakers who knew a hundred ways to keep little children from doing something without ever once saying "No" or "Don't do that," we have grown into a legion of women (and a few good men) in Nikes and Reeboks and Ferragamos who call a few members of Congress by their first names and whose opinions are sought as national policy is formulated and promulgated. We have been discovered by the corporate world ...