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...cope with what she describes as the "torments of hell," Stark did what she does best: research. She spent months on the Internet reading about long-term marriages, what makes them work, what makes them turn sour and fall apart. She came up with a name for what she was going through, Wife Abandonment Syndrome - the pain and trauma of being left, after a lengthy and outwardly happy marriage. In November, Stark will launch a once-a-week online workshop and group-therapy session called Bouncing Back Better for women like her. Stark says, "I thought, if I'm suffering...
...their products are being delayed. As a result, Lau says he expects that 20% of China's Hong Kong-owned factories, which employ 10 million people, could be shut down by early next year. That's a big concern to government officials, who will be hard-pressed to cope with a growing army of newly unemployed migrant workers. When Hong Kong toymaker Smart Union abruptly closed its doors in mid-October, hundreds of angry ex-employees crowded outside its shuttered factory in Guangdong province demanding unpaid wages. Says Lau: "I worry that the situation can't be improved...
...beyond 30 years. That amounts to the right to sell in all but name and potentially frees up hundreds of millions of rural Chinese - until now second-class citizens in their own country - to head for the big city. China's urban dwellers may well wonder how they will cope as hordes of their country cousins appear on their doorsteps, seeking their piece of the Chinese dream...
...have moved to close a loophole in Nebraska's safe-haven law that has seen 18 children--some as old as 17--abandoned at state hospitals since it went into effect in July. The law, which was intended to offer an alternative for those financially or emotionally unable to cope with newborns, never defined the word child--prompting some out-of-state parents to drive to Nebraska to take advantage of the oversight. The law will now apply only to babies 3 days old or younger, putting it on a par with safe-haven laws in other states...
...spot in the meeting agenda normally reserved for the business of the Dean of the Faculty, emphasized that, despite being the world’s wealthiest institution of higher education, Harvard would not make it through the downturn completely unscathed. Faust added that resources are being allocated to cope with the situation. “This University has survived revolutions, [a] civil war, downturns, and depressions, for more than 370 years, and our endowment enables us to pursue our ambitions over the long term with great consistency,” Faust said. “But the world is enveloped...