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...daughters, was a magazine editor and pregnant with Isabella, now 8, when she came up with the idea of an online store selling the hottest items of the season at the click of a mouse. Six years later and pregnant with Ava, now 19 months, Massenet decided to expand the London-based company Stateside, with a vast distribution center in Long Island City, N.Y., offering same-day delivery to Manhattan and overnight delivery across the U.S. "Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me," says Massenet. Indeed, figures for the last financial year saw turnover leap 75%, to $72 million...
...College began work on the center, in the basement of Canaday Hall, at the beginning of 2006 as part of an effort to expand social spaces across campus...
...provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark and Canada to try to use the murky form of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge to expand the territory they control. The ridge, a largely uncharted geological formation named for an 18th century Russian polymath born near the northern coastal city of Arkhangel'sk, runs under the Pole from north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Denmark's Greenland to the New Siberian Islands of Russia. Each...
...More True Romance Perhaps Belinda Luscombe needs to expand her parameters a bit on what is considered a "romantic movie" before declaring the genre a lost art [Sept. 10]. In 2005 an acclaimed and beloved film was released detailing a heartbreaking love story. It earned $170 million worldwide, was nominated for eight Oscars and won three. That film was Brokeback Mountain. I was surprised that neither it nor The Notebook rated a mention, as those films are the two highest-grossing romantic dramas of the past several years. Dean Backus, Hillsboro, Oregon
...good news: it turns out, millions of kids from low-income families are acing standardized tests. According to the first nationwide analysis of high-achieving students based on income, more than 1 million K-12 students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches rank in the top quartile. Expand the category to include children whose families make less than the median U.S. income, and the total rises to 3.4 million--more than the entire population of Iowa. Now the bad news: nearly half of lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth...