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Corporations eager to attract and retain experienced workers have also begun to provide benefits that appeal to grandparents. Lucent Technologies, based in Murray Hill, N.J., offers a variety of family-friendly perks--and grandparents are included in the company's definition of family. Deborah Boyd, who has primary care of her five-year-old grandson Charles, frequently consults company-provided counselors for answers to child-rearing questions. She has also applied for and received two separate grants to enhance his child-care center: $3,000 to buy a classroom computer and $19,000 for new playground equipment. Boyd is delighted...
...Just the other day, I picked up a Hittite grammar," Boyd says...
...Boyd still carries out the same job he always did, using his gift with words to tell complicated stories with ease and simplicity. Fifty years after his last class in a Harvard hall, his lessons in language are still with...
...Harvard was a great place to go and study," Boyd says, and his academic interest in language still lives...
...Boyd's gift with words found a much more practical outlet. Harvard may have taught Boyd about languages, but as a reporter, Boyd spent a career showing exactly how words are to be used, and what they are to be used...