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...airport. As a consultant for Accenture, she will be gone until late Thursday night, working with clients in faraway cities. Jaime, who sells and markets security software, will drop off their children Caroline, 7, at school and Mitchell, 3, at day care. He shops for groceries during his lunch break, then picks them both up at 6. When they get home, the kids blow kisses at Mommy through the webcam...
...personified narcissistic baby-boomer bachelorhood throughout the 1990s. Seinfeld is 53 (though he could easily pass for 40), and since the show ended its run, he has acquired a wife, a daughter and two sons. "As a single person, I was always exploring the world," says Seinfeld over lunch one day at the DreamWorks lot in Glendale, Calif., where he's putting the finishing touches on Bee Movie. "Now I've lost some interest in the world. I'm more interested in my wife and kids." After his show went off the air, he did some soul-searching, fell...
...rushed, fairly inattentive service. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the prices to match. With the average meal ranging from $10 to $15 a head, it provides a very peculiar dining experience, where the communal tables and general hullabaloo make one feel like a kid at the lunch table emptying out his piggybank. The menu, reminiscent of an airplane emergency pamphlet, is a bit tough to navigate. The appetizer tidbits they call “side dishes” are good enough, but the most reliable meals are those involving noodles—after all, the place is masquerading...
Elementary and high school students in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia use finger scans to pay for lunch - and even to check into class. But in many other states, the parental outcry about privacy has stopped the technology in its tracks. Michigan and Iowa have passed laws essentially barring schools from taking electronic fingerprints of children. Last month, Illinois enacted a law requiring schools to get parental consent before capturing an image of a child's finger...
...screen in front of the cashier. Kids with dirty or sweaty fingers are allowed to use their ID card, as are students who can't have an image taken of them because of religious or cultural issues. Allen says the system has helped add at least 10 minutes to lunch periods that in some schools last just 20 minutes. The technology hasn't necessarily saved money: the number of cafeteria employees has largely remained unchanged...