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...recently, business networking sites like LinkedIn were a mystery to Lisa Estabrook, 50, who left her advertising job at a bank in Philadelphia when her first child was born 16 years ago. Now she finds herself haunting YourOnRamp, which her husband - who was laid off from a reinsurance firm six weeks ago - heard about from a career counselor at a local church. She rattles off all the networking sites she's trying to get a handle on, including Facebook and Tweeter. Um, make that Twitter. "To my kids," she says, "it's funny to see Mom trying to get with...
...always have control, and that’s important to me.THC: What is the rehearsal process like for you at Boston Ballet?MK: Everything depends on what you’re doing, how close to the performance it is. Sometimes I have to dance for six hours. That’s hard. I think the learning process is the hardest. You have to be standing and learning all day, so it’s a lot of brainwork. When I’m working on Balanchine, the stagers and ballet masters tell me, for example, “Use your...
...like television stations cover approaching hurricanes, no one seemed to notice that switching back to “real sugar,” though a nice effort, is a gesture ultimately as empty as the calories in the soda itself—cane and corn alike. Instead of offering six different kinds of Pepsi or 15 different articles about each kind, we should be figuring out a way to make soda less a part of our lives. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that the soda industry is finally responding to the critical literature on high-fructose...
...Club Native” reveals how Mohawk women in the Canadian town of Kahnawake face patriarchal norms that force them to marry to preserve “blood purity” while disenfranchising women of mixed heritage. Another film, “The Sari Soldiers,” profiles six Nepalese women on divergent ends of the political, economic and social spectrum during Nepal’s civil war and democratic revolution. The prejudices and sufferings depicted in these films serve to underscore and pay homage to the women’s resilience. They depict sexual violence, poverty, political instability...
...good husband has been taken away from me, and my life has been destroyed. And what for? A piece of land that my husband is only going to get six feet of." Thus the anguished words of Kate Carroll, widow of police officer Stephen Carroll, who was murdered on March 9 in what appears to be a revival of the political violence that killed some 3,500 civilians, soldiers, police and paramilitaries over three decades in Northern Ireland...