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...number of companies assisting employees with volunteer efforts is growing about 25% a year, says Carol Sladek, work/life consultant with Hewitt Associates, a Lincolnshire, Ill., human-resources consulting firm. Nearly 75% of the employers in Hewitt's annual survey of the 100 best companies to work for provided time off for community service last year. And in 1999, 48% of employers included formal volunteer programs as part of their business plan, vs. just 19% in 1992, according to a survey of 248 companies conducted by the Points of Light Foundation. Nearly half of all employees in a variety of fields...
...Carol Beck, Leong's court-appointed public defender, said afterward that her client was "obviously mentally...
...stray comment by the pathetic prisoner, Jones concocted a story of a night on the town gone wrong and the resultant misery caused. It's one of those tracks that, because of a certain atmosphere and sadness, stands out from the rest of an album - think "Home Again" on Carol King's "Tapestry," or "Broadway" on Alison Krauss's "Now That I've Found...
Such absolute estrangements may not be the norm, but experts who study family relationships believe they are on the rise. Psychologist Carol Netzer, author of Cutoffs: How Family Members Who Sever Relationships Can Reconnect, thinks that today's broader cultural freedoms have made it easier for people to say goodbye to traditions and to relatives. "The nuclear family is not as tight as it once was," she says. Some rifts reflect larger trends. The Woodstock generation, Netzer explains, was full of young people leaving their families to lose themselves in drugs or join religious groups, political movements and communes. "Often...
...began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium has so far been generous to readers. In with the new! In with...