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...able to defeat evil geniuses, lab-made supervillains and his nasty half-brother, but he's unlikely to withstand the challenge of a teenage James Kirk. As for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, it will disappear into the ether, and McConaughey can go back to being tickled by his son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Hugh Is Huge | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...what's left to do? For the most part, scramble for childcare arrangements and surf the Internet for information. "I Googled 'CHD swine flu' to see if something came up," says Autumn Rose Reo, 28, whose 10-month-old son has congenital heart disease. Reo quickly found links to official public health sites and old-fashioned good advice from moms and dads of CHD children who had dealt with flu outbreaks in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, Parents Worry over Swine Flu, Fight Cabin Fever | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...younger one was scheduled to take his TAKS [Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills] test so he is ecstatic," says Wahl. But try telling a 14-year-old anticipating his first date that movie theaters should be avoided. Wahl said she allowed her son to keep that first date and while the young couple watched their flick in one theatre, she sat nearby in another wondering if the concession workers should have been wearing rubber gloves. "There were a lot of people at the movies," Wahl said, "I mean how can you miss Wolverine?" Reo wonders how working parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, Parents Worry over Swine Flu, Fight Cabin Fever | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...three-year-old son came home from a private preschool recently and told me that his teacher had hit him for not being able to color properly. I was shocked and angry. The next morning, however, I discovered that my anger could be funneled into a wider controversy. I read in the local newspapers about Shanno Khan, 11, a Delhi schoolgirl had allegedly been punished at school but did not survive. Shanno's sisters, who attend the same government school, say that her teacher forced her to stand in the scorching sun for two hours until she fainted. She reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

More than anything, Shanno's death is a wake-up call to parents to speak up for their own children. Many are afraid to. Indu Bhandari, mother of a five-year-old, says her son often complains about being hit on the head with a pencil by his teacher. "If I complain, she might ill-treat my son more," Bhandari says. At my son's school, I raised the matter for discussion in the parents' forum. We decided to watch how all the children in his school are treated much more closely. For now, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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