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Thus rejuvenated, head west for 10 minutes in a taxi for a bite to eat at Le Garcon Chinois (Lane 9 off Hengshan Road). Its Chinese-French menu offers dishes like spicy duck-breast salad. Or head back on Lane 9 toward Yang's Kitchen for traditional Shanghai dishes like braised meatballs and drunken chicken. End your day with a drink at M on the Bund, a sumptuous bar and Mediterranean eatery on the Huangpu River. From the seventh-floor balcony overlooking the splendid stretch of Old World colonial trading houses, you can look across at the gleaming, futuristic towers...
...might think. Some have predicted a return to light escapism. Video-rental stores reported a spike in comedy rentals. MGM expanded the comedy Legally Blonde onto 1,300 screens after movie houses began pleading for feel-good fare. But rentals of action movies were also up, despite Hollywood's breast beating over violence. If there's one thing those bloody blockbusters leave you with, after all, it's a lot of dead bad guys...
...surprisingly, health-care companies have been the early adopters of work-force lactation programs. Cigna's Working Well Moms program is considered a benchmark. It offers moms-to-be consultation with a professional breast-feeding expert, known as a lactation consultant, before and after they give birth. When the new mom returns to the bosom of corporate life, Cigna provides access to a private room with a hospital-grade pump, a carrying case to discreetly transport the pumping paraphernalia and expressed milk, plus bottles and access to a refrigerator...
Cigna, at which nearly 80% of the work force is female, sees the lactation program as good health policy and good business. A UCLA study commissioned by the company showed that it saved about $240,000 a year in health-care expenses for breast-feeding mothers and their children and a further $60,000 through reduced absenteeism. That's not including the incalculable goodwill of happy new parents. "They couldn't have made it any easier," says project manager Maria Couchon about pumping milk at work for her four-month-old daughter Ava. "It's a fact of life that...
Last month Illinois became the fourth state to enact legislation that protects a woman's right to express milk at work, joining Hawaii, Connecticut and Minnesota. An additional 20 or so states have programs that encourage businesses to enable returning mothers to continue breast-feeding, allowing breaks and providing someplace other than a bathroom stall to pump...