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...unmarried mothers; more than a million legal abortions are performed each year in the U.S. So Apatow, like all modern comedy writers, has another challenge: how to create social and ethical barriers - the ones the old screenwriters relied on for their characters to hurdle - when few exist. His tactic: rebuild the old barriers. If those hobbling conventions worked for the old masters, they might be worth resuscitating...
...Time away from the public scrutiny has also allowed Summers to rebuild relationships with the people he works with at Harvard and to put the crises of his tenure behind...
...country emerging from a very recent invasion, Estonia has pretty much returned to normal. Sure, there were no roads and bridges to rebuild, no homes or offices destroyed. But the cyberattacks that, beginning on April 27, knocked out the websites of government departments, political parties, media groups and banks were a punishing blow to one of the world's most wired countries - and a stark warning to other nations of just how vulnerable the Internet is in the face of a sustained assault...
...prison staff, providing new equipment, and building 14 new jails to reduce overcrowding - construction on the first three is already under way, he says. But the dire conditions in a prison system that now houses many Europeans has prompted the European Commission to looking into funding a program to rebuild prisons and train prison staff in Venezuela, one embassy official said...
...lifesaving triumph that forecasters were able to alert the people of Greensburg 20 minutes before the monster struck. But the sad spectacle of finger pointing and recriminations in the aftermath of disaster is becoming as predictable as the stoicism of survivors and the inevitable promises to rebuild...