Word: nelsons
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Titles that are more explicitly based on the Bible are also growing in popularity. The Prayer of Jabez for Teens (Multnomah Publishers) has sold more than 800,000 copies since it came out in July, while the Extreme for Jesus series (Thomas Nelson) is the largest brand of Christian teen books and Bibles in the world. Started in 1999, the company has so far sold 1 million books and Bibles. The books, including journals and fiction, are to regular religious literature what skateboarding is to skipping, and the imprint plays up the association with extreme sports. "Church has been made...
...your kids have made it through college. That leaves you with a little money to spend on yourself, right? Not yet. What parents are discovering is that in a wobbly economy, the kids don't quite leave the financial nest. Sandy Nelson, 57, an elementary school teacher, thought her daughter Annalise could have her pick of well-paying positions in consulting firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. But the senior at Harvard, set to graduate this June with a 3.75 grade-point average, is waiting out the tough economy by moving to France in August to teach English part time...
Meanwhile, graduating seniors should look at government positions, night jobs, nonprofits and part-time jobs in areas like health care, telemarketing, manufacturing and security. And there's a possible silver lining. "This is a chance for me to explore, have fun and try something different," which is how Annalise Nelson sees the situation...
...colleagues are looking very closely at specific genes that might be involved. Of particular interest are the genes encoding four brain-growth regulators that have been found in newborns who go on to develop mental retardation or autism. Among these compounds, as National Institutes of Health researcher Dr. Karin Nelson and her colleagues reported last year, is a potent molecule known as vasoactive intestinal peptide. VIP plays a role not only in brain development but in the immune system and gastrointestinal tract as well, a hint that other disorders that so frequently accompany autism may not be coincidental...
...Hector's unofficial water bowl.) Better yet, stay in town--at L'Horizon, where Marilyn Monroe always took Room 3C, or at Herbert Burns' 1957 Orbit In, which has been meticulously restored and impeccably decorated with furnishings by mid-century icons Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen and George Nelson. It's hard to imagine another hotel whose devotion to style is so intense. The guest lounge is named after a local architect (the ubiquitous Frey), sports vintage photographs of his work (by Shulman) and invites visitors to simply look out the window for the best view in town...