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...world didn't exactly shake when Betsy Daly stopped going to Blockbuster a year ago, but the movie-rental giant would be smart to ask itself whether this 33-year-old San Jose, Calif., mom represents the future. Daly now pays $15 a month to order her DVDs online. They arrive in the mail in a day or two, she gets to keep two at once (for $5 more a month she could keep three), and she mails them back whenever she feels like it. "I love that the movie can sit on the counter for weeks, and it doesn...
...whole country within a day's coverage. The recommendation service needs tweaking too: "I've rated 600 movies, and it's still telling me I would like to see Star Trek," says Kendra Jacobson, 31, of San Francisco. Still, she liked the service so much she turned her mom onto it--and both have stopped using Blockbuster...
...daughter, Anoushka, 20, for the first time saw his older daughter perform. The subject makes Jones uncomfortable: "I don't want to bash my dad--I love my dad--but I don't want to give him credit for something he didn't do. I grew up with my mom, and he wasn't around...
Playing about a decade under her true age (37), Tomei is Natalie, a warmhearted, lower-class single mom who has made two mistakes: marrying an angry rich boy (William Mapother) and then, while separated, taking up with Frank. Theirs is a true love. But the affair crosses class lines. His mother worries openly about it; if the kid persists, he could end up a lobsterman instead of the architect he wants to be. Matt indulges his son; he thinks this is just a phase. Who's right, we'll never know. For Frank is killed. So, more or less...
OBESE KIDS Mothers who worry about their children gaining weight could actually make the problem worse. According to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the more a mother worries that her child will become obese the fatter a child tends to be. But when a mom allows her child to eat everything on the plate, the child's typical total fat mass is lower. Researchers surmise that controlling feeding strategies interfere with kids' ability to self-regulate their food intake...