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...experiment: handing artistically minded directors big budgets and big stars. Gambling on Sam Raimi's character-driven approach to Spider-Man produced a spectacular hit; stage director Sam Mendes scored big with American Beauty and leads Tom Hanks and Paul Newman down the Road to Perdition in July. The formula has risks as well: Doug Liman (Swingers) had a tempestuous tenure as director of The Bourne Identity, the Matt Damon spy thriller...
Here's the lowdown. Most students (and parents) who borrow to finance education using Stafford (and PLUS) loans emerge from school with a portfolio of loans, one for each year. They don't necessarily all come from the same lender, nor are they all at the same rate. The formula for Stafford loan interest--a variable rate computed each year--is the 91-day Treasury-bill rate set in the last auction each May, plus a factor. For student loans made between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998, that factor is 3.1 percentage points during the repayment period...
...debate over how long to breast-feed a child has probably been going on as long as children have been breast-fed. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies nurse for six months and, if possible, for 12 or more. (Iron-fortified infant formula can be substituted, if necessary, but no cow's milk for a full year.) Twelve months is a long time, however, especially for working mothers. I asked June Reinisch, former director of the Kinsey Institute and one of the authors of the J.A.M.A. study, what she advises. "More is better...
...breast milk that makes babies so smart? Reinisch suspects there is a component of mother's milk that either protects the central nervous system or stimulates its development. The likeliest candidate: a long-chain polyunsaturated acid known as DHA that is found in human milk but not in infant formula or cow's milk. Today's infant formulas, by the way, are fortified with a precursor of DHA called ala and may offer some of the same benefits...
...know if there's an official literary term for this genre yet, but let's call it Chinese Chick Lit. If you look at books like Adeline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves and Anhua Gao's To the Edge of the Sky, you'll find a basic formula: a feisty, exotically gorgeous woman suffers hell. Hell comes in the form of an oppressive regime (usually the Cultural Revolution) or through abuse inflicted by male power figures (heartless fathers or cruel husbands...