Wasn't Noah Cute? I clipped this essay out of the local paper 10 years ago and don’t know who the original author is, but wanted to share: For all parents and grandparents . . . The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140. This does not touch college tuition. For those with kids, that figure leads to wild fantasies about all the money we could have banked if not for (insert child’s name here). For others, that numb