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...announced a new partnership between the city, Harvard, MIT and Lesley University to focus on improving Cambridge's schools...
Doyle, 33, a robust blond from Huntington Beach, Calif., was reared by battling parents who taught her that marriage should be an equal partnership. But the writer, who bills herself in her biography as "a feminist and former shrew," says she nearly ruined her marriage to husband John, 44, by becoming a control freak, constantly nagging and demeaning him. Doyle says she turned to happier friends for advice. One told her she never criticized her husband; another said she gave hers control of the money. From there, and aided by ideas in other self-help books, Doyle formulated the concept...
...need for flexibility and special accommodations, the high hurdles of re-entry and the challenges that precarious health places on people with a passionate drive to perform but a body that can't always cope with the stress of job performance. According to a Johns Hopkins University study called "Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Illness," about 40% of the U.S. working-age population has some form of chronic condition, defined as any that persists for a year or longer. With the number of workers who suffer from chronic illnesses like asthma and diabetes on the rise...
Irwin's way-wild kingdom is leagues removed from the traditional approach of National Geographic, which launched its own cable channel in 10 million homes this month. The National Geographic Channel, a partnership with Fox Cable Networks, will exploit the group's brand and extensive, 35-year-old library of footage. It will also present new programs like the news show National Geographic Today, which will focus on nature, science and conservation, in hopes of providing a harder-core, more adult-focused alternative. Programming executive vice president Andrew Wilk points to the contrast between A.P.'s hosts and Geographic...
Even more jarring, especially to those in academe who enjoy the permanence of tenure, is the dizzying rate of turnover in struggling public schools. Take the partnership between a high school in California's central valley and a neighboring community college, which won a five-year, $300,000 grant from the state. By the second year, 85% of those involved with the project had left. Says Dave Jolly, who administered the grant for the state: "The principal, the vice principal and most of the best teachers were all gone." The partnership fizzled...