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...website, launched in 2001 with one advice giver, currently has about 600, most of whom find out about EWC through their senior centers or by word of mouth. They field about 3,500 letters a month, 35% of which come from young people in their teens to early 20s...
...yelp, on the other hand, founder Jeremy Stoppelman's dog Darwin romps freely around the cubicleless San Francisco office. Like YouTube, Yelp.com was started by two former PayPal whizzes in their 20s. Last month 1.5 million people visited their fledgling site to share information about local businesses in 25 major cities. Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, read and write about restaurants, stores and services. Yelp's founders say they were inspired by their frustration in trying to find good doctor recommendations online. Their idea was to improve on existing tools like Citysearch, which Yelp's founders call...
...Film Forum, New York City's premier repertory house, is providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Laye, an affluent Parisian commuter town, to the capital. There, in the Salle des Fêtes of the Elysées Palace, French President Jacques Chirac presented her with the Médaille de la Famille Française - the medal of the French family, founded in the '20s to express the nation's gratitude for fecundity. In France, a quartet of children might net their mother a bronze award, six or seven could snare her a silver, but only a respectable married mother of eight or more is deemed worthy of gold. Each year, honors are bestowed...
...mothers, cultural and ethnic diversity. As the traditional patriarchy breaks down, children will be more involved in decision-making, says the Future Foundation's Professor Howard. She foresees improvements to fertility treatments leading to more "vertical" family structures. A woman might have a first set of children in her 20s and a second batch in her 40s. "Family will be no less important to people than it ever was," she concludes. Johannes Huinink, a family researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany, agrees. "The kind of authentic trusting relationships we have in families don't exist elsewhere in society...