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...That's what the movie's heroine, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) must do. Newly arrived in Oregon from Michigan with her mother (Teri Hatcher) and father (John Hodgman), she feels ignored by her stay-at-home, workaholic writer parents. Father, hunched over his PC, is a mild, preoccupied sort; but Mother has no milk-drop of the maternal instinct. She speaks to Coraline in the curt, distracted voice that a stern boss would use on a cleaning woman who had entered her office during a conference call. Mother is efficient, officious, utterly joyless; you couldn't make...
...children (and, by now, far too many tyke heroes of fairy tales), Coraline goes through the doorway into another realm. It's a long, oddly uterine passage that leads to an apartment exactly like her new home, and with identical parents - except for two things. The weird news: Other Mother and Other Father have buttons for eyes. The better news: these cheerful folks instantly dote on the little girl as if she were the center of their universe. How lovely to see you! Have some cake! Let us tuck you into bed. Coraline thinks she's lucked into paradise: that...
...caught up with economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who has studied these issues forever. She's the founder of the Hidden Brain Drain task force, a group of more than 50 companies--including GE, Goldman Sachs and our own mother ship, Time Warner--that are exploring how employers can hang on to the people they can least afford to lose. Especially when companies need to reinvent themselves to survive, she warns, they can't afford the huge costs associated with stressed-out talent: "It's not good for the bottom line," she says, "and it's not good for individuals...
...Nadya Suleman, 33, became pregnant with octuplets is the subject of rampant speculation. Her mother has indicated that the preemies are the result of IVF treatment, a confounding thought from both a parent's perspective--Suleman already has six children under the age of 8--and a physician's. In June, just about the time those eight babies began growing inside her womb, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) issued updated guidelines on the number of embryos that should be transferred to a woman's body in the hope they'll implant in the uterus and lead...
...Eventually the whole piece is meant to decay.”Kayla A. Escobedo ’12 continued the theme of personal development, using her oil painting as a way to acknowledge and commemorate her growth in her relationship with her father. The painting depicts her mother and father as collections of hands. Her mother’s hands reach outwards and her father’s hands inwards.“I wanted to honor and respect my dad now that I’m finally getting to know him,” Escobedo said...