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...other things you can't even hope for. We may be in this "precarious" working condition for life. If I don't know that I can provide for my children, I may just have to decide not to have any. There is the feeling that you are not an adult. The French are reacting to this, and we don't. What's happening there is a normal reaction. Here, something is wrong. There's no movement coming up from below. There is a profound lack of faith in everything. We are almost just resigned, which is a terrible thing...
CLEARED. Dan Brown, 41, whose 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code, was denounced by the Vatican for "falsify[ing] the figure of Christ" on its way to becoming one of the best-selling (40 million copies) adult novels in history; of allegations that he lifted a theme--that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child--from another book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail; in a verdict by Britain's High Court that clears the way for next month's release of the film version of the book, starring Tom Hanks; in London. Brown, who acknowledged reading Blood...
...travel pro Travel writer, parenting expert and mother of two, Emily Kaufman draws on her expertise in all those areas in The Travel Mom's Ultimate Book of Family Travel She suggests a variety of destinations and itineraries and provides work sheets to help design trips that satisfy adults' interests and kids' dreams. She also offers tips on how to pack like a pro and includes Boredom Bags, suitable for long car rides and airport delays. Just the facts, Mom Cadogan's Take the Kids Traveling gives comprehensive travel advice for parents looking to find suitable vacations for toddlers...
It’s also significant that this book, while not very well known, has been a source of inspiration for juvenile and adult writers over the past fifty years, as well as for filmmakers. The book was spun into a slightly happier 1964 film starring Peter Sellers, and more recently both the book and film inspired the Scarlett Johansson indie favorite “Ghost World?...
...adult world—here personified by Val’s cold-hearted and selfish parents—ultimately encroaches on their project...