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This is a reasonable qualm, but as Max might say, "Now stop!" Jonze, chronicler of uncertain adulthood in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has done a masterly job of bringing Sendak's work to the screen. He has broken one Hollywood doctrine: the notion that children's cinema is best devised for miniature couch potatoes who require a steady stream of laughs, action sequences and references to flatulence. Even the best American children's movies, like those made by Pixar, embed their heartfelt messages in what are fundamentally entertainments. The mysterious emotional turmoil and, let's face it, weirdness that...
...working? Only about 50% of Americans have 401(k) accounts. So not enough people are participating. But even among those that do, the amount of savings that the 401(k) is producing is not nearly enough. The average account has enough to live on for a few years at best, not nearly enough to fund a full retirement...
...rather than with palliative care. More than 40% of residents who died over the course of the study were sent to the emergency room, hospitalized, tube-fed or given IV nutrition during the last three months of life. These interventions can themselves cause distress and pain while providing, at best, questionable benefit and minimal prolongation of life, experts say. Among the family members who directed these residents' care, however, those who believed that the resident had less than six months to live and understood the nature of advanced dementia were less likely to intervene aggressively than caregivers who lacked such...
...Over the last decade, Brown has become one of, if not the best team in the Ivy league and probably our biggest rival,” Clark said. “In the last few years, neither of us has been able to win at home. After our 4-1 victory last year, Brown will be looking to reverse the trend...
...earlier Guardian story that detailed Trafigura's involvement in what the newspaper described as "one of the worst pollution disasters of recent history" and the company's offer of compensation to 31,000 Africans who claimed to have been injured by the toxic waste. (See the best social-networking applications...