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Believing that people will pay $9 for what they used to get for free, moviemakers are updating and inflating old TV shows--from Bewitched (Nicole Kidman) to The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer in the Ralph Kramden role. "We try to stay true to the main theme," says Cedric, "which is this guy dreaming of a bigger life for his family and always doing it by some kind of get-rich-quick scheme." Want to see what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been doing onscreen? Catch them as rival government hit men in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, suggested...
...early afternoon, the ER doctors had released our colleagues. Now our options were either to admit them into the surgical ward of the main hospital, where it would be five days before a surgeon would get around to stitching their wounds, or to move them to a private hospital for immediate stitching. Most Iraqis can't afford private hospitals, even though the rooms cost only $10 a day and specialists charge just $200 for serious surgery...
...they fleeing? Australian investigators have found stress in the mix, but it's research out of the U.S. - where teacher dropout rates match Australia's - that has homed in on what the main stresses are. Asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of teachers cited involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice, according to the 2004 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. Some 73% of beginning teachers said too many parents treat teachers as adversaries. Australian educators make the same observations: "I say to some of our parents," says Allen Brooke, principal of Caroline Chisholm...
...depression, can free women from the burden of expectations, as they ask, Who am I doing all this for anyway? Shellenbarger cites research that found men's "dream fulfillment" goes downhill from their mid-30s on; women, who tend to put their dreams in the sock drawer during their main child-rearing years, actually become dreamier as they get older; 36% of those between 50 and 64 reported that they had fulfilled a dream, compared with 24% of younger women and 28% of their male peers...
...production of Harvard STAGE, an organization whose main focus is to promote theater and the arts in Boston public schools, “Forum” promises to bring a taste of classic Broadway to the Cambridge stage...