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Share household expenses. Pay parents rent, or help with bills, and take over chores like mowing the lawn. "This way, everyone is helping in some way, and no one feels taken advantage of," says Elizabeth Carll, a psychologist in Huntington, N.Y., who is an expert on dealing with stress. Bliss does all the cooking and cleaning. Michael Gallagher buys his own food, and beyond that, his mother says, he has "paid in trade" by persuading her to have the hip replacement she had needed for a while and by taking care of her postsurgery...
...marriage is scheduled to take place on Sunday at the kind of snooty country-house hotel that is usually expert at making Britons of Goody's class feel out of place. At the end of her life, though, Goody, bald and frail, has most definitely arrived. Shetty confided in her blog that a "shoot in Kuala Lampur" (sic) prevents her attendance at the ceremony, but homegrown celebrities are expected to turn out in force to honor Goody, including the megasuccessful pop group Girls Aloud, originally brought together by a TV talent show...
...Many nations, especially here in the U.S., tend to view France with the out-dated, 40 year-old perception that it hasn't faced its past and learned hard lessons from it," says Robert Paxton, professor emeritus at Columbia University and an acclaimed expert on fascism and Vichy France. "It has done deep research, held trials, updated text books, and even uncovered troubling wartime information on public figures - late President François Mitterrand for one. I'd like school teachers around the U.S. to be able to teach American responsibility for slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans...
...York-based non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, where she worked for over two decades as a senior adviser in the Africa division. In a statement released on its Web site, Human Rights Watch praised Des Forges as “the world’s leading expert on the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.” Those who knew Des Forges at Radcliffe, when she went by her maiden name Alison Liebhafsky, expressed no surprise that she had made her life’s work to uncover the human rights abuses in the world. Susan E. Shepard...
...emergency situations could help. "I'm pretty critical of the fact that doctors have such a monopoly over any kind of diagnosis and treatment," says Kondo. "In this regard, Japan needs to go in the U.S. route to developing more paramedics and develop more capacity, with expert nurses and open up the field...