Word: mothers
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...switch to a slower track. Why couldn't workers slow down and speed up depending on the changing demands of their personal lives? Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett foresees a "sequencing" pattern in which dual-career couples would alternate the times in which they focus heavily on their work. A mother or father might be intensely involved in a project for a period of time and thereby earn credits for time off to spend with the family during a slower period. To make such a scenario possible, Hewlett points out, the wage gap would have to close. Otherwise the woman...
...unwittingly provide him with the means to construct a dark alternate history beginning in 1955. Over its course, Biff has managed to turn pleasant little Hill Valley, Calif., into a hellish variant of Las Vegas, with himself as its czar. He has even contrived to make Marty's mother a widow and marry her, turning her into an alcoholic and Marty into an abused stepson...
INTERVIEW: Mother Teresa, doing God's work...
...bringing succor to the poor and dying of Calcutta and Kalighat, Mother Teresa finds richness in utter poverty and hope in the darkest corners of despair...
About 300 million Indians went to the polls last week, but they were not cheering for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi the way they did when he ran in 1984, two months after the assassination of his mother Indira. Surveys showed that the five-party National Front coalition, led by the mild, bespectacled V.P. Singh, stood a good chance of beating Gandhi's Congress (I) Party. Since independence, Congress has been defeated only once...