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...every Dell and Cisco, these days, there is a Sun and an AMD, issuing glum earnings outlooks and quietly smothering the newborn tech optimism in its cradle. And the NASDAQ that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators...
...about half of all children are born out of wedlock, almost double the E.U. average. This more informal structure is helped by a legal framework that is increasingly sympathetic to nontraditional families: in Denmark, for example, under a law passed this year, cohabiting couples automatically have joint custody of newborn children. Throughout Europe, couples like the Skovlind-Nielsens are redefining what the term family means in the year 2001. Forget the stereotype of a bread-winning father, stay-at-home mother and 2.4 children in a one-family dwelling, garage attached. Divorce is one factor contributing to the reconfiguring...
...resourceful Harvard undergraduate, if someone handed me a newborn child and sent me home, I wouldn’t have the slightest clue what to do. Though I’m sure I would eventually figure out how to feed and burp the child, as well as rock him or her to sleep, the goals of fostering good behavioral habits along with quality intellectual development would probably be lost somewhere between the baby crying and me trying to make dinner while finishing my homework. Good parenting is not an innate trait, and is even less so under stressful situations...
...about his second family. The wealthy Yukawa clan offered Bayly a sum of about $400,000 on condition that she hide the existence of her daughters and forfeit any claim to the family estate. Secrecy meant she could not apply for compensation from JAL. Shocked, grieving and nursing a newborn, Bayly signed. Back in London, they lived on the payoff and with some clandestine help from Yukawa's mother...
...provide anti-HIV drugs in all public hospitals. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) accused the government of violating the country's constitution by failing to distribute the drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers on a national basis. TAC says such action might save the lives of about 35,000 newborn babies a year. UNITED STATES Make Peace or We'll Keep This Chagall Shortly after Marc Chagall's Study for "Over Vitebsk" vanished from Manhattan's Jewish Museum on June 7, the museum received a letter from the "International Committee for Art and Peace." It said the oil painting, valued...