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...Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years in the role of a loving wife who is unjustly accused of infidelity. After that, she played mum to the top male stars of Bombay's Golden Age: Dilip Kumar in Ganga Jumna, Dev Anand in Guide, Dharmendra in Aap Ki Parchhaiyan. Women on pedestals are expected to behave like statuary: the heavenward glance, the beseeching gesture, a grandeur silent and stoic. Not Chitnis. Hers was a robust femininity; it humanized the saints she played. She retired in the '80s and moved to the U.S.?alas, without the happy ending...
...once again to be on an upswing. And now trampolines are a hit not just with kids but also with exercise-conscious baby boomers and teen snowboarders. "Sports right now are aerial--the higher the better," says Lani Loken-Dahle, a trampoline instructor at the University of Oregon. The AAP still frowns on backyard bouncing, but nearly 700,000 trampolines were sold last year. --By Rebecca Winters
...Allen Adler, VP for legal and government affairs of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), describes the library community as one of "the most important markets and strongest allies" for the publishing industry, especially on matters of first amendments protection. But, he says, the trepidation felt by both sides of the issue is understandable. "We are looking at the technology and at the ways that libraries serve their patrons, and we?re concerned that if you logically apply this new technology to the service of patrons, then you could have a situation where libraries are violating what we think...
Sources: Pew Research Center, AAP Newsfeed, Washington Post, N.Y. Times, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, CampusCruiser.com
Norman L. Shapiro, one maker of University sourcebooks, said he was forced to increase prices after he received a letter from the director of copyright education of the Association of American Publishers, Inc. (AAP) as well as a visit from AAP representatives...