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...YORK: Sick of absorbing the consistent losses of its online division, Barnes & Noble.com, Barnes & Noble is spinning it off to a place where profits don't matter: the world of the Internet-stock IPO. As part of the whole, Barnes&Noble.com was dragging its parent into the red, losing $23 million in the recent second quarter. As a separate entity, though, the division can instantly join the club of Wall Street darlings -- Yahoo, Lycos, GeoCities and B&N archrival Amazon.com -- who rarely make any money but attract it in droves...
...When it does go public, the new entity will offer 20 percent of itself, a slice plenty small enough to keep investors rabid and demand high. No word yet on the price. For the parent Barnes & Noble, though, the jettison is already paying off. Upon hearing the announcement, investors promptly bid the company's stock up $4 to $41.25 in morning trading...
...wide range of films that you normally don't see in the summer: 'There's Something About Mary,' a slapstick comedy; 'Saving Private Ryan,' an Oscar-contending drama; and 'The Truman Show,' a warm-hearted satire," Bucksbaum says. "Family films did better than expected -- there's 'Mulan,' and 'The Parent Trap.' Even 'Ever After' is turning out to be a solid hit. It wasn't just a typical summer full of action-adventure blockbusters...
...Parents of the '90s tend to read this 1940 story searching for dark lessons about birth parents, surrogacy and who knows what else. But small children still love it. That's because the Mayzie vs. Horton dustup affirms what they already know: real parents are people who are dedicated and unshakably there for you, day in and day out. Period. In their limited world view, the parent-child connection is not spun from DNA. Rather, it's woven with the mundane strands of everyday life, the countless gestures, large and small, that repeatedly reaffirm: I see you, I love...
...this as a mother who has come to parenthood through adoption. True, my daughter Becky and I don't "look alike" (an issue on people's minds last week, as if physical resemblance somehow legitimizes or alters the parent-child bond). But I assure you, Becky's claim on me is exclusive and has been in evidence since the age of 14 months, when she raced across a room yelling, "My mommy!" then tried to shove a child off my lap. I've met hundreds of adopted children; not one has needed a court or a mirror to figure...