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...coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, which opens April 3. It's about an intellectual, awkward young man named James (Jesse Eisenberg) who spends a summer in the '80s at a family-owned amusement park, falling in love with another employee, Em (Kristen Stewart), who herself is dealing with the stress surrounding the death of her mother and her affair with the park's older, married mechanic (Ryan Reynolds). TIME talked with Mottola about the film's quirky characters, its occasional scenes of drug usage - marijuana is this boy's secret weapon when it comes to making friends...
...fervor that led so many to sign up after 9/11 is now eight years past. That leaves recruiters with perhaps the toughest, if not the most dangerous, job in the Army. Last year alone, the number of recruiters who killed themselves was triple the overall Army rate. Like posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, recruiter suicides are a hidden cost of the nation's wars...
...this up front: I am rooting for OpenSkies. It's an airline. Cheered for an airline lately? Didn't think so. OpenSkies is tiny at this point, but it does something very few other airlines do: provides luxurious, stress-free transatlantic service at a really good value. So you know the odds are against...
...mood for the day. These most recent developments by SANOSON are exciting for the simple reason that we all know the raw power music has to influence us—whether we be YardFest attendees or restaurant waitresses. But until science offers us an equation for managing pain or stress with music, we will continue to self-medicate, ignorant of the calculus of our hearts but wise to their temperaments.—Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
Several tests of investor optimism will come in the weeks ahead, as U.S. companies begin reporting first quarter earnings (or losses). Moreover, the U.S. Treasury will probably make public the results of the bank stress tests that it has conducted in recent weeks. If stocks perform well in the face of bad quarterly numbers, or mixed news on the stress tests, market analysts will take that as a strong indicator that investor sentiment is truly turning...