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...thinking, it's not in the quietest part of the home but rather where the family computer should already be: in a shared area like a family or dining room. Kids won't feel exiled or isolated in such a place, and parents will be able to keep a casual eye on both homework and computer use. Some of the old homework rules still hold: the area should be one that is reasonably quiet, well lighted, stocked with supplies and TV free...
...small but insignificant world of media chitchat was fluttered last week by Renata Adler's new memoir that takes a brilliant flamethrower to the New Yorker magazine. Adler is a scrupulous, usefully unsettling critic, not to be yoked with casual hit men. She eviscerates so elegantly that her corpses remain standing. But her book and its overheated reception invoke the whole delightful genre of vengeful, venomous, and ultimately purposeless, literary assaults...
...asked Primrose what I could expect from my job, and she said AOL technology meant I could probably work from home. When I am at the office, she told me, the dress code is casual, and I could lose the Oxfords-and-blazer look. She spoke well of the company gym, which is soon to offer salsa dancing, and the cafeteria, which just that afternoon was celebrating kielbasa day. Then I asked Primrose the most important question at any new job: "How closely do you guys look at the expense reports?" She paused. "We are focused on that bottom line...
...complex problems that can result when artistic statement is bound to a controlling force. Young Rockefeller didn't count on Rivera painting Lenin and syphilis cells in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, so he orders the mural jackhammered off of the wall in a strikingly literal expression of the casual tyranny of commerce. Yet perhaps the most poignant thread of the film is its only fictional tale, that of an aging ventriloquist (Bill Murray), who, with the help of Joan Cusack's rabble-rousing character, turns against the Federal Theater when he suspects Communist influence. He later comes to regret...
...number of factors for the trend, including more information on, and a corollary willingness to use, contraception, as well as moral climate that more closely examines the need to have an abortion. But the biggest factor could be much more simple than that - studies show that teen and "casual" adult sex have decreased steadily throughout the decade. And since most abortions are of unintended pregnancies by unmarried women, it doesn't take much of a leap to see that the number of these pregnancies drops off with the changing attitudes toward casual sex. The source of these changes is difficult...