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...provides five different on-site or near-site child-care centers that are open to the children of its 100,000 employees. There is even a public school accommodating 150 students for grades K-3 that is just for children of NationsBank's employees in Jacksonville, Fla., says Nancy Poe, a vice president in the bank's personnel department. The school is a joint project of the company and the Duval County school system. "The school is an extension of our day-care program," says Poe. "Parents have the comfort of knowing that they can visit their children...
...mothers and fathers at NationsBank, including those who adopt a child, can take up to six months of partial home time after their six weeks of maternity or paternity leave, Poe notes. In this program, employees can "phase back" into their jobs, working more than 20 hours and less than 40 hours, if they want...
People with bipolar depression can function normally, even exceptionally, for years. Mozart, Poe and Van Gogh are thought to have had the disorder. But without diagnosis and medication, the sufferer risks becoming manic, delusional and attracted to risk. In 1995 LeTourneau began slipping over. Her beloved father was found to have terminal cancer. Her marriage was troubled. And in January 1996 she suffered both a miscarriage and severe depression...
Halloween lets us off easy, but it should not be underestimated--it serves a real function. Not surprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe, the patron saint of Halloween, captured the spirit of this enigmatic holiday best in one of his early poems: "Thy soul shall find itself alone/'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tomb-stone." I hope you all had a good...
Romance writer Nora Roberts should be flattered that rival author Janet Dailey thought Roberts was so creative and talented that her words were worth copying [PEOPLE, Aug. 11]. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Edgar Allan Poe starts The Fall of the House of Usher with "During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens..." Tell me, what author could help making that type of writing part of his or her own work? Of course...