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...deadbeat parents were not bad enough. Now aggravated spouses have a new gripe: profiteering companies that offer to help chase down the more than $89 billion in child-support payments that American parents have failed to make. Deadbeat bounty hunting is a small but growing field. There are at least 38 private businesses, up from a smattering a decade ago. The biggest of them, Supportkids, has 30,000 open cases and has collected more than $120 million from deadbeats since it was founded 11 years ago. But it has also kept $40 million for itself, which raises the question...
...bipolar kids ages 4 through 18, and he believes he has spotted a characteristic pattern. In the morning, bipolar children are more difficult to rouse than the average child. They resist getting up, getting dressed, heading to school. They are either irritable, with a tendency to snap and gripe, or sullen and withdrawn...
...premiere?" Aniston's most endearing trait may be that she's wholly lacking in movie-star pretension. She and Pitt are frequently spotted hanging out in L.A., easygoing and accessible, without an entourage or phalanx of bodyguards. They are often trailed by a photographer, but she doesn't gripe about the press. Not usually, anyway. Aniston recently settled--"amicably"--a lawsuit against two magazine publishers for running topless photos of her in 1999. "You pick your battles," she says. "I drew the line when someone crawled into my backyard and took a naked photo...
...culinary pilgrimage. After each year's edition is published, they rush to dine (and be seen dining) in the newly starred eateries. Detractors say that while the restaurants included may be good, there are other, often better ones left out. The 102-year-old Guide, they gripe, is too fusty, too fussy, too French. But whichever side of the table one sits on, the consensus is that establishments with three stars, Michelin's highest rating, are extraordinary. At these restaurants, says Derek Brown, director of the Michelin Red Guides, diners should be "astonished by what they find: the very best...
...unions' main gripe now: a government plan to privatize 11 public corporations such as Lee's employer Korea Electric Power Co. Labor Minister Bang Yong Seok says the strikes are a waste of time and that there's no possibility of changing the plan. Bang, who fought authoritarian rule as a young union leader in the 1970s, says, in the global economy today, only competitive companies survive, and unions have to get with the program...