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...PIRG (also known as Public Interest Research Groups). According to the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war have better rights than an airline passenger," adds Hanni, whose American Airlines plane was stranded for eight hours last December, during which time she says a dog defecated in the aisle and a mother was forced to make diapers out of clothing. (American Airlines denies both accusations...
...reasons best known to Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past - her desertion by her mad mother, the years she spent in her grandmother's brothel (no, she was never a working girl, though that seems to be the only indignity she was spared), her time as a street singer, her rise to drug and drink addled international fame, her inevitable decline and early death from cancer...
Among some West African Mandinka, the help of a maternal grandmother has been linked with a halving of the under-5 mortality rate. Similar benefits were shown in Finnish farming communities in the 18th century. African parents still counsel a marriageable son, "First find yourself a good mother." They are talking about his future mother-in-law, not his future wife...
...this cooperative system that allowed mothers to have more babies than they could support and fathers to vary in how they cared for them. The politicized notion of the nuclear family aside, a mother and father raising children alone was typically a temporary and often less than optimal phase for our ancestors...
Hrdy is professor emerita of anthropology at UC Davis and author of Mother Nature...