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...Soldiers deploying abroad have always had to contend with missing a child's birth, a sibling's wedding or a parent's death. They face fatigue and frustration no matter the duration of stay. Their spouses suffer at home, and marriages fall apart under the strain of separation. And the stress of deployment in a hostile combat zone has a corrosive effect on discipline. Three more months may not seem that long to a civilian, but to a soldier already on the ground, it's another 90 days in which a lot could go wrong. "It's like running...
...prints and glass negatives, is mounting the first major look at the artist's work in at least a quarter century - and the first ever in France. "Atget, a Retrospective," until July 1 at the library's Richelieu center in Paris, marks the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth and the 80th of his death. The show offers 350 scenes of a vanished era: quiet courtyards, bustling squares, manicured parks, crumbling cornices and balustrades, placid river barges and enticing shop fronts, as well as strollers, street hawkers and sleeping drunks. Many of the pictures have never been exhibited before...
...neighborhoods of New York City, Atget-style, as they fell to the skyscraper. After Atget's death, she arranged for New York City's Museum of Modern Art to buy many of his prints. Atget soon became better known in the U.S. than in the land of his birth, an imbalance the Bibliothèque Nationale show may finally correct...
...lips that uttered that sentence are capable of smiling, rather sweetly, and often part to emit bursts of spontaneous laughter. He tells jokes, though no one can quite remember the setups or the punch lines. He has two young sons (his daughter died 10 days after her birth in 2002) and a sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass...
...Institute for Economic Policy Research, believes that when you start receiving a pension should be based not on how long you have been alive but on how much longer you are expected to live. By his calculations, counting back from the expected end of life rather than forward from birth would lead to reasonably delayed benefits that would boost the labor force 10% by 2050 and GDP as much as 10% a year. If those who retire volunteer at something, it bumps GDP an additional...