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...married mother of eight or more is deemed worthy of gold. Each year, honors are bestowed on several thousand large families. If the concept seems anachronistic, that's because it is. There's a revolution sweeping through Europe, one more radical than any baby boomer on hallucinogenics could have dreamt up. The ideal of family life celebrated at the Elysées Palace and in town halls across France - of the nuclear family, that is, a man and woman, plus the offspring that they alone produced - is being toppled. In its place, Europeans are developing their own, innovative models...
...does not usually participate in activism, she said she felt compelled to act after seeing the documentary. “I couldn’t do work for the rest of the night after seeing it,” she said. “I dreamt about it. I couldn’t stop thinking about...
Diane L. Nabatoff ’78, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School ’82, is the producer of the Antonio Banderas vehicle “Take the Lead.” An English concentrator who initially dreamt of singing stardom, Nabatoff founded the female a capella group, The Radcliffe Pitches. She continued to break ground for women at Harvard when she became the first female producer of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals...
...confidence. Three Indian restaurants in London now have Michelin stars; Bollywood is suddenly fashionable; and remixes of Hindi film songs play in Europe's trendiest clubs. In some ways, Lakshmi Mittal is the symbol of the new Indian confidence. Even a decade ago, who would have dreamt that the third richest man in the world would hold an Indian passport? Integral to the way in which Indians regard Mittal is that he is not a child of the diaspora, not some person of Indian origin who grew up in Leicester or New Jersey. He is, for want of a better...
...friendly items hint at the truly remarkable range of uses for recycled office materials. A British company?called, natch, Remarkable?has developed a line of stationery supplies that demonstrates how ingenuity and good design can make trash flash. Ed Douglas Miller, an agricultural economist with experience of plastics engineering, dreamt up Remarkable in his London bedsit in 1996. After devising a technique for turning used plastic cups into pencils, Miller followed up with ways to turn polystyrene packaging into rulers, tires into pencil cases and mousepads, and printers into pens, creating bright new products emblazoned with declarations such...