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...family of 60 years ago. The paterfamilias comes home to his young wife. The baby boom that will fill maternity wards to bursting until the mid-1960s is just beginning. A child plays at her feet and the rounded belly beneath her apron suggests another is on the way. Fast-forward to the present day. What lies behind the front door? The nuclear family is not dead - some 29% of E.U. households still include dependent children - but the age gap between parents and children is widening. Mothers with old faces and young children are now a common sight...
Vacations were short and simple for Mary Kay Conlon and Chip Plumb in their fast-track corporate days. "One phone call, no planning, never more than a week," says Conlon. "We'd just plop on the beach somewhere." But to celebrate their early retirement last year, the Evanston, Ill., couple rented a spacious Paris apartment for six months. "We always regretted that neither of us had done a junior year abroad," says Conlon, 48, a former health-care-industry executive who was eager to immerse herself in another language and culture...
That more relaxed approach to travel grew out of Italy's slow food movement, which emphasizes home-cooked, authentic cuisine to counter the proliferation of fast-food restaurants. Slow travelers, says Kenny, prefer a "concentric circle" approach to tourism: go out the front door and explore the neighborhood and nearby towns, get to know the locals instead of slavishly following guidebook itineraries. Kenny and her husband Steve Cohen, 59, were in a Munich art gallery filled with Rubenses when it struck her that seeing all the standard tourist highlights was exhausting and there must be a better...
...Heptagonal Championships] and [NCAA] Regionals are what we have as our goals. It wasn’t like we were gearing up to go crazy at this meet.” “I think Yale’s been doing a lot more fast running at this point, and we’ve done a lot more strength stuff, for the middle of the race,” Hafer added. “And so we just didn’t have the speed to get out as fast as they did.” In addition, Harvard...
...video game of the same name-came out in 2005, critics called it "overblown, amateurish gibberish," and used it as proof that Boll "belongs in the pantheon of inept directors." His follow-up film BloodRayne, another video game adaptation, was equally panned, and left critics declaring that he was "fast becoming one of the worst directors on the planet." Just this week in fact, TIME?s book critic wrote a pained reflection about a detractor who had dubbed him "the Uwe Boll of the book reviewing world...