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...surveyed said they are planning to become parents, while 78.4 percent of women said they plan to have children. The study found that men and women are equally likely to continue to work full-time even if their partners can support them financially or if they are able to obtain high-quality day care for their children. Yale women are more likely to take time off work than men after having children, but only 4.1 percent of Yale women said they plan to stop working entirely once they have children, and 71.8 percent plan to take less than one year...
While she enjoyed her courses and the resources the University afforded to her, Ross said the personal relationships she developed with her peers helped her obtain the people-oriented skills necessary for the campaign trail...
...fairy tales can have bad scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently negotiating for the government to buy back the national railway, which it privatized in 2001 - a decision it now regrets. Plans to sell the state-owned energy company collapsed in 2002 when the acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain financing in the wake of Enron's bankruptcy. Estonia went through a brief recession and the government had to slash spending when Russia's financial crisis hit in 1998. The birthrate collapsed in the 1990s and has only now begun to turn upward again, helped by incentives including 15 months...
...tone of his muscles was low. A definitive diagnosis required an analysis of his chromosomes and would take days. I joined the parents with Bobby bundled in a blanket and began to point out to them the physical features that I recognized. I then recommended that we obtain the chromosome test as well as some other tests. Bobby's parents fought back tears as they listened. His father then looked at me and said, "But he has my eyes...
...Hewlett-Packard; in the wake of a massive scandal stemming from Dunn's approval of shady investigations into the source of media leaks on HP's board; in Palo Alto, Calif. The media-leak probe--which involved, among other things, impersonating employees and journalists covering the company to obtain their phone records--has prompted criminal and congressional investigations. Dunn was succeeded by HP CEO Mark Hurd, who in a news conference offered an apology to "those journalists who were investigated and to everyone who was impacted...