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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Couples Retreat was co-written by Vaughn and Favreau, with an assist from Dana Fox, and it has the choppiness you'd expect from too many cooks in the kitchen (in contrast, Favreau was the only screenwriter on Swingers). I'm fine with the original Trent ("money") and Mike (not "money," no matter what Trent said) moving to the suburbs, having kids, getting fat and spending weekends at Home Depot and Applebee's. These things happen. What's depressing is that there's hardly a creative spark in this sour, offensive, contrived story, and its sloppiness is more consistent than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couples Retreat: The Glum-Married Pack | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...proposed in all the health bills, there are other key responsibilities that could fall to them under the Baucus bill. Most important, the all-important exchanges - Web-accessible marketplaces in which individuals and small groups could compare and shop for private insurance - would be established state by state. By contrast, the House bill would create a national exchange. Instead of a national public insurance plan - the controversial "public option" that is included in both the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Finance Committee bill and the House bill - the Baucus bill calls for the establishment of state or multistate nonprofit health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health-Care Reform: Will States Get Too Much Power? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...than stellar can make up for lost ground until a child is about 2½. One way is through breast milk, which contains the good nutrients mothers are eating and provides the variety of flavors that will predispose a child to try new foods, says Greene. Commercial formulas, by contrast, are designed to deliver the same flavor profile day after day. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Good Food Habits in Kids from the Womb | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...adult females.) People with autism are less likely than average to have finished college but about as likely to be employed. Only 0.2% of adults who had finished college were on the spectrum, but the rate was 10 times higher among those without a high school degree. And, in contrast with people with depression or anxiety disorders, autistic adults were unlikely be receiving any sort of mental health services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the First Time, a Census of Autistic Adults | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

...even beyond concerns of electoral strategy, the Democratic Party would do well to change how it approaches the American values debate. Instead of pretending to operate in a moral vacuum, liberals in the United States must offer a vision of American values to contrast that of folks like Tim Pawlenty. President Obama has tried to do this for some time, but many of his supporters—especially young progressives—refuse to follow suit...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Valuing Values Voters | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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