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...says Michael. "We found that the border was changing Mexico just as quickly as--and maybe faster than--it was changing the U.S." Los Angeles bureau chief Terry McCarthy and photojournalist James Nachtwey spent a week with migrants, border-patrol agents and people smugglers in the desert scrub dividing Mexico and Arizona, the busiest alien-smuggling corridor along the border...
Speaking as one of those harried workers, I long ago vanquished any guilt about having other people scrub the floors, wash the clothes or chip the baked-on crud off casserole dishes. Like most of the 273 participants in a 1998 University of Maryland study that found mothers spend slightly more time now with their children than they did in 1965, I cut back on housework to protect time with my kids...
...with your children," she said. "But personally? I don't particularly care who cleans my toilets. I don't feel ennobled by that job." Of course, Folbre has done it enough to know it's hard, honest work you can be proud of doing well. Kids armed with a scrub brush will learn too. But for you, the ennobling work may be chores like baking with children or helping an ailing neighbor with yard work. Folbre had a special message for parents of daughters: Think twice before teaching them that housework is an essential part of their future. You want...
...family in January 1998, his mission was simple: scout the region and find a single 120-acre plot where Mondavi could produce 240,000 bottles of top-quality wine each year. After two years of road trips, wine tasting and geological surveying, he settled on a patch of scrub-covered hillside on the Massif de l'Arboussas, above the village of Aniane, about 15 miles northwest of the regional center of Montpellier. There was just one problem: the land belonged to the village. "French people wouldn't even think about doing something on common land," Pearson says. "But we went...
...tired of the Body Shop, Origins' ginger body scrub offers a refreshing change from the ordinary. This ivory-colored exfoliant--made from Dead Sea salt, macadamia oil and ginger--doesn't look like much, but the soft, silky sensation it leaves behind is a perfect antidote for winter chapping...