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Recently I met with a group of working mothers who gather each month to talk about parenting issues. In the course of our discussion, it became clear that guilt hung over the group like a toxic cloud, even though the women came from different backgrounds, were at different points in their careers and had a different number of kids. Get a group of mothers together, and we will find plenty to feel guilty about. We get divorced, we forget to sign permission slips or to retrieve our kids on time on early-dismissal days, we can't afford piano lessons...
...dates that cloud U.S. military history, April 9, 1942, must rank as one of the most devastating. In the Philippines, with his troops racked by disease, surrounded and facing annihilation, U.S. Army Major General Edward King surrendered his 78,000 American and Filipino soldiers and 20,000 Filipino civilians to an overwhelming Japanese force...
...work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted to interact with his sculpture. When he posted photos of his work on his website, he was flooded with e-mails asking if it was possible to get a doll...
...definitely took her job very seriously,” Bartley said. “There was a zealousness about it that I hope did not cloud her judgment...
...hate losing too. And it occurred to me that maybe kids aren't such scary aliens after all. And maybe, just maybe, this Game Boy craze isn't so dumb. In Konami's Krazy Racers, you can race in space or on the beach. You can drop off a cloud and drive in a lake. It's silly and fun and makes the impossible possible--nothing scary about...