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...when a parent deploys. "They think they are the only one in the situation. They don't know anyone else who has a parent sent away," says Theresa Ferrari, Ohio project director of Operation: Military Kids, a national group founded in 2004 that organizes activities in 34 states to connect SMKs and help them cope. "But there really are a lot of people in the same situation." According to the most complete Department of Defense data for April 2007, more than 60,000 Guards and reservists who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq were parents of at least one child...
Explaining to the youngest children why a parent is leaving home is often a difficult task. That's why the military paired up with Elmo and friends for a Sesame Street DVD called "Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families Cope with Military Deployment." More than 250,000 copies have been distributed to families since it was released in August 2006, and a follow-up study conducted by the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University reports that the video helped kids interact more constructively with their families, and helped parents feel less depressed about their spouse's deployment...
...young, Bergman's was not a name worth knowing - though they might be expected to connect with the dark, near-suicidal introspection of his films, with their sense of a tortured psyche swirling into the quicksand of its own making. In 2005, when I proposed a TIME feature on Bergman to coincide with the U.S. release of Saraband, none of the college-age interns that summer had heard...
...Message boards, a communication tool that predates the modern Internet and Web 1.0, were popular amongst geeks and early adopters as early as the late 1980s when users would use their modems to connect directly into dial-up message boards. In the mid- to late 90s, message boards became popular forums for users to discuss publicly traded stocks...
...complex strategic decisions collectively requires an almost Benedictine devotion to corporate togetherness, starting with physical space. The firm's 39th- and 40th-floor offices offer sweeping views of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge as well as of the interior hallways--the walls are glass. Two staircases connect the floors, and walking about is heavily encouraged. Branch offices and telecommuting are verboten...