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...broad professional competence that our guest had was a great blessing to many in his community. It is also, unfortunately, soon to vanish from American medicine. Even our general practice physicians - who don't do procedures like surgeons do - are fast changing from prescribing docs to "medical distributors": farming out the problems they find to specialists. (Pneumonia? See the pulmonologist. Tonsillitis? Ear, nose and throat doctor...
...many fathers find there's less of it to give. Asian men are becoming fathers later in life, when they tend to have less time for their children. "Career responsibilities increase with age," says Raphael Chan, a director of a fast-food chain in Singapore who became a first-time father at age 41. "But this was the point at which I had a child, and it was hard." Multitasking and an accelerated workflow present other challenges for the single-task-oriented male brain. And technological advances-from vibrating Blackberries to the addictive allure of high-speed Internet access...
...excused from taking on a wider family role. Increasingly, they are "sharing more housework with their spouses, such as buying groceries, picking up the kids from school, changing diapers and feeding the babies," says Zhang Liang, a researcher on fatherhood at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Chan, the fast-food executive, is one of the legion of fathers who has had to adapt accordingly. "My wife picks our son up from playschool and brings him to her workplace, and cooks him something to eat in the pantry there," he says. "I come and pick them up a couple...
...just the right auteur-perps showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane car chase. More than the autos get totaled here; so does Q.T.'s reputation as cinema's fanboy-genius...
...It’s a little dangerous,” said resident tutor Uchechukwugaeme O. Nwamara. “The cars are notoriously fast on that road. It’s also unwieldy, since the island hasn’t been built...