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...very different Andrea Yates stares from her police snapshot. This woman, 36, looks sapped of life and utterly sad. That, her husband insists, is not the Andrea he knows. That's not the Andrea who made little coupon books, with coupons redeemable for hugs, for each child on Valentine's Day. But that is the Andrea who apparently drowned all five of their children last Wednesday. She was, Russell Yates says, a woman racked by severe postpartum depression...
When the Census released its latest snapshot of the American family last week, some pundits described the picture as "alarming" and "disturbing," not the kind you'd want to paste into your favorite album. The American family is changing--shifting away from a traditional nuclear structure toward a variety of reconfigurations, and a big reason is a 25% increase since 1990 in the number of single mothers raising children. (The number of single fathers raising children is also up--a whopping 62%--although they are still vastly outnumbered by single mothers.) And for the first time, the number of traditional...
...stopped thinking about it, but now that the numbers are out, the backlash has begun. We are dysfunctional. Our home is broken. We are at risk and vulnerable. America is going to hell in a handbasket, and we are holding the basket--confounding the eternal American happy snapshot of what a family is supposed to look like...
...size of a football field that sits near Dulles Airport. Huge, colorful maps are displayed on the walls, and people hunch over computer screens searching for the smallest disturbance that will tip the delicate balance that is the nation's air traffic system into chaos. A real-time snapshot of the U.S. airspace (depicted about five feet high) shows the enormity of the task: up to 5,000 planes overhead at any one moment...
...million Net surfers have posted a photo online, according to the research firm Infotrends, and a quarter of those have actually ordered prints. Since only about 5% of Americans have converted to digital cameras, most sites now help scan old-fashioned film online as well. Here's a snapshot of some of the top imagemakers...