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When Sophie, a financial analyst in Paris, learned that her bank would lay off 50 employees by this summer, she didn't react by mailing out résumés or trying to ingratiate herself with her managers - she scheduled arthroscopic knee surgery. "I'm doing it now because I won't be able to if I wait and lose my job," says the 27-year-old, who, fearing questions from her employer, spoke with TIME on condition of anonymity. By going under the knife ahead of her potential job loss, Sophie can use the firm's supplementary health...
...film industry, April is the cruelest month, a late Lent before the big "summer" film feast begins in early May. (This year's Maytime blockbuster hopefuls: Wolverine, Star Trek, Angels & Demons, Terminator Salvation and Night at the Museum; and those are just the major sequels, prequels and remakes.) The last weekend in April is a kind of movie doggie day care, where Hollywood stashes its unwanted mutts until they can be unleashed on DVD. Given the low-rent release date of Obsessed, and Sony Screen Gems' refusal to screen it for critics, industry analysts predicted an opening weekend...
Weather for the last week of classes? Decidedly summer-like for the next two days, and we won't have a high below 60 through Friday. This will make racing to finish a final assignment in Lamont feel oh, so much better...
...Panel: "Office of Career Services: Connecting Students with Information and Opportunities" (Science Center B) — The event description starts most inauspiciously with this sentence: "Are you wondering what you might do next summer?" Look Harvard, these prefrosh are just looking for a good time. But you just took them into uncharted territory and then spanked their already future-oriented complexes into high gear. "Have you begun to think about what you might explore as possible career paths after graduation?" You don't have to tell Harvard students to worry prematurely—they'll do it fine themselves...
...Hampshire, officials are already doing just that. A decade-old law charging people for the costs of their rescue if the behavior that got them into the mess was deemed "reckless" was rewritten this past summer, lowering the bar so that merely "negligent" behavior could saddle you with a bill...