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...flight rotation, what does? Nowak, of course, is through as an astronaut. Just as important, she's through as an icon-and she was a very good one. A 43-year-old Naval Academy graduate and married mother of three, she managed the demographic hat trick of career, motherhood and military. No buzz-cut, fists-on-hips Al Shepard or Deke Slayton was better suited to his era than Nowak was to hers...
...work-life balance when the standard work week is just 35 hours.) Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal is an unmarried mother of four, and plainly thinks that such a status - making her a symbol of the Frenchwoman's ability to balance a career and motherhood - is a boon to her campaign...
DIED. Tillie Olsen, 94, political, feminist writer and advocate for the working class who gave life to characters seldom before celebrated in fiction: ordinary women struggling to survive amid the demands of jobs and motherhood; in Oakland, Calif. For many years a working mom with little time to write, she produced a small body of hugely influential work. Among her books: the nonfiction Silences, which explored women's obstacles to creativity, and the 1961 collection Tell Me a Riddle, whose title novella detailed an unhappily married couple's road trip and won an O. Henry Award for exceptional short fiction...
...mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child. I wonder how much Madonna understands that. Madhuri Pai Singapore...
...seen as trendy is not always a bad thing. Madonna's action will hopefully encourage others to adopt orphan children who might otherwise have very grim lives. Richard M. Valenci Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S. As a mother, I shuddered to read Madonna's pathetically low benchmark for motherhood: "Even if I'm the worst mother in the world, I'm better than death!" The comment was insensitive and reeked of arrogance. While Madonna's giving huge sums of money to charity is laudable, one needs an entirely different set of skills to be a good mother to an adopted child...