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...Ruth Jones, a single parent of three children who all attend afterschool programs at Jackson/Mann, thanked the partners for their efforts, saying she would not be able to hold a full-time job if her children were not in afterschool programs...
...hopes that [a University] can maintain an atmosphere of open inquiry, particularly to be free from the accepted pieties of one's own time," said Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. "Is someone so involved in the political process who has signed on to so many ideas able to take on this higher obligation? I guess that will be his task...
...role of a labor doula varies depending on the needs and desires of the parents. For some people, the support of a doula is more important after the actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work...
Cooper (L) and Schoedsack (R) Thus "Kong" was born from Cooper-Schoedsack's own experience as documentary filmmakers, Willis O'Brien's test reels, a fairy tale plot line conceived by Hollywood veteran James Creelman and Schoedsack spouse Ruth Rose, and a naïve '30s view of the great ape as nature's ultimate killing machine. Like the dragons, the displaced ape would die in the city; even better, he would die on the just-completed Empire State Building, the ultimate expression of human technical achievement, and he would be killed by airplanes, the ultimate engine of destruction. Cooper...
Late last year, Brown University selected Ruth J. Simmons, president of Smith College, to take over in July of this year...