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Surprisingly, these men have little trouble remarrying. "Girls are looked upon by their parents as burdens," says Gargi Chakravarty of the National Federation of Indian Women, who links the rise in dowry deaths to increasing consumerism in Indian society. "Modernization has not changed general views on women, whose status remains...
Since Christensen, 43, started the Clown Care Unit at Babies Hospital four years ago, the project has grown to involve 25 trained clowns who make rounds at eight New York City hospitals. Two or three days a week, bands of these performers, dressed in mock hospital garb and bearing such...
Clown Care got its start in 1986, when an official at Babies Hospital asked if Big Apple Circus clowns would entertain at a gathering for patients and their families. Christensen and fellow clown Jeff Gordon obliged, performing a 20-minute parody of hospital personnel, food and procedures. Patients and staff...
Then as his first term neared an end and the state's surplus reached $49 million, Kerrey withdrew from politics as suddenly as he had entered. "I had accomplished what I wanted to. It was time to move on," he says simply. Scott Matter, whose party regained the state house...
Since consumer spending amounts to two-thirds of the economy, talk of a recession can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. "The recession starts in the heart, then is reflected in the charts," explains a senior Italian banker stationed in the U.S. "If you look into the hearts of people right...