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...they just thought it was funny that a housewife from Provence should be interested." A history graduate of Cambridge, Dean has a nose for detail. The references to pop songs and TV programs sometimes have the whiff of the library about them. But the details that matter - the inner turmoil of the compromised prison officer, the mother who wants a son, not a hero - smell of real and rarer history. From all her interviews, Dean concluded that "Northern Ireland is very much like, 'You don't come from here, so you can't understand.'" At a time when political polarization...
...first time Marc Laidlaw played Doom it made him sick. It was not the violence; it was motion sickness--the game was so intense and immersive it actually messed with his inner ear. He immediately switched to the gentle, atmospheric adventure game Myst and developed another ailment: he became addicted. "I pretty much didn't get up from the computer for two days," he remembers...
...informed estimate is that there are as many as 2,000 cases a year in Australia of parents punching, pushing, threatening or verbally abusing school staff. Violence can haunt teachers even when they're not physically harmed. "After the bell one afternoon," recalls an infants teacher formerly based in inner-city Sydney, "a dad asked me how his son was going. I said he was a little restless, but it was near the end of term and all the kids were. The stepmother rang the school the next day and asked that we not speak to the father about these...
Guides for the Inner JourneyTo serve women in need of ongoing support and guidance, there is the growing army of life coaches who, once again, are often women looking to turn their midlife experience into a career. Cynthia Barnett, a longtime teacher and school administrator in Connecticut, left education two years ago to start educating women. She holds regular retreats at a beach house for a dozen or so women at a time. "They get to a point where they feel, well, my children are gone, I feel like I have an empty nest now, so what's me? They...
...helping others recharge and reinvent themselves, often by finding spirituality. "We realized that we were on to something, that we had a particular affinity for how women had made changes in midlife," says Engle. They decided to provide moral and practical support. Their plan is called Tending Your Inner Garden, "a program of spirituality and creativity just for women." They offer a yearlong course of workshops, dinners and retreats that costs $480. "Sitting around a table with a group of women is so much more than sharing a meal and nourishing our bodies," says Meredith Houle, 56, a satisfied customer...