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These films and Far from Heaven, for which Julianne Moore has won 11 Actress awards, fit into what might be called the gynecocentric film genre. To generalize a bit: men's films are about triumphing over huge obstacles; women's films are about choosing to live (or die) with them. A hero does things; a heroine feels things. Men act; women talk. Men get fired up; women go up in flames. Men exact a righteous revenge; women explore subtleties and ambiguities--their adventure is an internal journey. Movie men live in the boyhood realm of fables, fairy tales; movie women...
...sure why. Multiple births due to fertility drugs account for some of the increase, but they can't explain the 27% rise in premature births over the past two decades. Today 1 in 8 babies, close to half a million annually, is born preterm--some so small, they could fit in your hand...
...firm in Washington. It isn't hard to see why Munoz got the nod: he went to the right school (Harvard Law, class of '78), he knows the right people (Marriott CEO Bill Marriott is a friend), and he has managed multibillion-dollar portfolios. But Munoz doesn't simply fit the profile of the traditional corporate director: he's an expert on Latin America, where Marriott hopes to expand aggressively, and he's a CPA who can truly read a financial statement--what's on the lines and what's between them...
...Money Managers, five top investment pros (see box, right) who share a taste for dividend-paying stocks but are far from unanimous on just how to use them. That's appropriate, because different investors will always have different needs. Listen in on the discussion and see where you fit...
...higher education to only low-income students and does nothing to solve our nation’s drug problem. Worst of all, it removes the power judges previously had to deny federal aid to students on a case-by-case basis, which allowed for punishment that more appropriately fit the crime. If the United States government was truly concerned with protecting America’s youth and discouraging harmful behavior, it would do something about the four students who die, the 1,370 who are injured, and the 192 who are raped or sexually assaulted on college campuses every single...