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Another Bad Summer for United, or an Opportunity? Summer is supposed to be salad days for airlines. It's when the kids are out of school, mom and dad slow down at work, and everybody heads for the hills, or the beach, or even overseas - on a plane. Over the last few summers, airlines have seen their 'load factors' - the industry term for how much of the plane is packed with passengers - soar to near 90 per cent. With new measures in hand to prevent overloading the air traffic system, and given how well the carriers seemed to have handled...
Mitchell Johnson, 16 --13 when crime committed --Tried as a juvenile in Arkansas --With Golden, killed a teacher and four students, wounded 10 --At a youth facility until 21 LIFE NOW Allowed two phone calls a month, only to immediate family. Told his mom he has forgotten how to sing...
...reason is a 25% increase since 1990 in the number of single mothers raising children. (The number of single fathers raising children is also up--a whopping 62%--although they are still vastly outnumbered by single mothers.) And for the first time, the number of traditional families--a married mom and pop with children--has fallen below 50% of all family households...
Every school has its Leslie Kanofsky. She's the parent all the teachers know, whether they have taught her kids or not. She's a loving mom, a committed PTA officer, a regular face in the halls--and, some say, a royal pain. In an age when many schools would be pleased if most of their parents would venture into the building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded...
...activism and enthusiasm are well intentioned, and it's clear she is having an impact on her children and their schools. But not all that impact is welcome. Like many other kids of what some teachers call "helicopter parents," Kanofsky's children say they are sometimes embarrassed by their mom's presence and influence in the schools. "It's hard to tell if teachers are reacting to you as a person or if [their behavior] is colored by their impressions of your parent," says Laura Kanofsky, 19, who will be a sophomore at Harvey Mudd College in California...