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...ENGINEERS Over the past 15 years, the number of students graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering dropped 50%, to 12,400. Companies like Texas Instruments are hiring electrical engineers for product-design, sales and marketing departments. Other engineers--software, mechanical, aerospace, civil and structural--are also hot properties...
...those blissfully unaware of The Bachelor, the show's setup went like this: a 31-year-old management consultant, ALEX MICHEL, was introduced by abc to 25 strangers vying to become his wife. Each week he narrowed the field after assessing how the competitors performed in such challenges as lavish dinners, mud baths and trips to Hawaii. Like all high-stakes sporting events, the final episode last Thursday, in which Michel picked between the two remaining contestants, kicked off with a one-hour preshow--in this one, the 23 women thwarted in their quest to become Mrs. Michel reunited...
About A Boy (May 17): Adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel, Hugh Grant plays Will, an irresponsible, charming, and thoughtless bachelor living off the accomplishments of his father. Realizing that at age 38, his best bet is to go after single mothers, he joins S.P.A.T (Single Parents Alone Together) and inadvertently befriends Marcus (Hoult), a troubled twelve year-old in need of a father figure. Much as he fights it, Will eventually takes Marcus under his wing and teaches the boy to be cool and learning a thing or two about relationships in the process. Directed by Paul...
Born in Plymouth, England, Smith attended Cambridge, where he received his bachelor and doctoral degrees. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, he was an organic chemistry university lecturer at Manchester University...
...February, Hyperion plans to publish a book that will make women wince: "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor" by Rick Marin, a former senior writer at Newsweek and former reporter for the New York Times Sunday Styles section. According to his publisher, "After a doomed marriage dissolves into divorce, journalist Rick Marin goes from devoted husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining...