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...laid-back leg of the threesome, Ginny quit her job as a high school English teacher after Hilary was born, and now works two days a week at the Avon public library. She is the one who races around to the parade of after-school lessons and practices. George had a grueling commute--two hours each way, leaving on the 5:35 a.m. train--but on evenings and weekends he was all Hilary's, supervising homework assignments, shooting hoops. You can see the closeness of the father-daughter bond in the photographs around Hilary's room. Hilary and George skiing...
...unqualified success - he was recalled to Bern when a Swiss paper published details of an alleged affair with a topless model. Though he denied the story from the beginning and has since received a sizable out-of-court settlement from the tabloid, which admitted fabricating the story, he quit government and remains bitter over his treatment. "I will never go back under this minister," he says when asked if he would ever return to the diplomatic corps. "But fortunately ministers change...
...foot. One 14-year-old boy, an orphan, tried to sign up; the Americans turned him away. But by graduation, more than one-third of the trainees had dropped out. Many had arrived with the idea that they would be training in the U.S. or Turkey, then quit when they realized that they were destined only for the battle-scarred Afghan Military Academy outside Kabul and that they would make just $30 a month during training and $50 afterward. "If I'd known it was going to be like this, I probably wouldn't have come," grumbles Private Shamsuddin...
...oceans just as stressed, and most treaties designed to do something about it lie in incomplete states of ratification or implementation. Yet we're oddly smarter than we were in Rio. If years of environmental false starts have taught us anything, it's that it's time to quit seeing the job of cleaning up the world as a zero-sum game between industrial progress on the one hand and a healthy planet on the other. The fact is, it's development--well-planned, well-executed sustainable development--that may be what saves our bacon before it's too late...
True or false? Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt have stopped smoking in order to have a baby. "False," says Aniston. "We do want to have a baby. We will eventually quit smoking...