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...Docter notes, Up is driven by the idea of escape - the notion, familiar to dreamers of any age, that "you could just float away and take what you want with you." What Carl wants to take is the house where he spent a happy half-century with Ellie and where, in a sense, she still lives. Like a snail or, more likely, Atlas, Carl carries his house and the world's burden on his back; his wish for escape is also a sacred responsibility, to take Ellie to Paradise Falls. Thanks to some extraordinarily favorable trade winds, that's where...
...best-selling vehicles in the U.S. in 2008, only one, the Dodge Ram pickup, was made by Chrysler - compared with five for GM and four for Ford. A venerable European carmaker, Daimler, had already tried and failed to revive Chrysler. Its current owner, the private-equity fund Cerberus, had spent months of fruitless globetrotting in search of another car company willing to give...
Rasmussen emphasizes that physicians must do more to counsel individual patients about diet and exercise both before and after conception. "Traditionally, these guidelines concentrated on what was healthiest for the baby," Rasmussen says. "Here, we've spent much more time looking at both the mother's and the baby's well-being...
...Joined the Manhattan district attorney's office, where from 1979 to 1984 she prosecuted cases involving robberies, assaults and other crimes. Later spent eight years at the law firm Pavia & Harcourt, specializing in intellectual property and rising to partner...
...have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up." (New York Times...