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...easy to blame such over-the-top pitches on the often noted tendency of today's parents to ruin childhood by applying the same maniacal will to raising kids as they did to making partner before age 35. Marketers are no fools. They read Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks' satiric deconstruction of the new educated élite and its obsession with useful leisure activities, and they are well aware that today's overachieving superparents can't bear the thought of their obviously exceptional offspring wasting breath on any activity that won't help them win early acceptance to Princeton...
...across a small room lined with computer terminals, trying to contain his mounting frustration. The British-born astronomer, now at Caltech, has been granted a single precious night to use one of the twin Keck telescopes, among the most powerful in the world. Last night he and his observing partner, a graduate student named Dan Stark, flew 3,000 miles, from Southern California to Hawaii, where the Kecks are located. And during most of the afternoon and early evening today, they've made their final plans for the "run," as astronomers call a night of peering into the heavens...
...promising because its 500 separate antennas will be located on a remote cattle station in western Australia, far from any interference from earthly radio broadcasts. "The South Pole would be good too," says Jacqueline Hewitt, director of the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at M.I.T., which is a partner in the project, "but this is a bit more accessible. We'll need to cut some roads, though...
...that even before Redstone's comments, Cruise/Wagner was securing $100 million in hedge-fund money to finance films independently. "We decided that the best direction for us is to do something where we lead the way in terms of where the film industry is going," says Cruise's producing partner Paula Wagner. The private-equity model has suffered some high-profile failures, like this year's big-budget flop Poseidon, but new investors continue to rush to Tinseltown. In September, Flyboys, at $60 million one of the most financially ambitious and risky films funded entirely by private investors, lands...
...Iran is a top trading partner with Italy. Would you be opposed to sanctions if they do not abide by U.N. resolutions...