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These two innocents -- Boatner at age 21 was almost as unworldly as his young charges--had come to the camp to find a way to cope with the sudden death of a parent. For Boatner, getting through the first year after "the one man involved in my creation ended for good and in my presence" seems like an insurmountable hurdle (one Price himself faced at age 21). For most of the summer, Boatner does not know that Rafe has suffered a similar experience--his mother was murdered while he looked on--and that is what has rendered him so fragile...
Bush's administration does nothing about the growing difficulties facing women like homelessness, children living in poverty, single parent households and discrimination in the workplace. Bush even promised to veto a bill that would require large firms to grant maternity and paternity leave--essential benefits in the era of the working family. Barbara Bush's solution of "volunteerism"--her "thousand points of light"--is an option only of the upper middle class...
FRAMES. Whether carrying Greg LeMond in a Tour de France alpine climb or a suburban parent with a child in tow, bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded...
Therein lies the rub. Women know that the hard-won choice to work has somehow turned into an imperative to do so, but without the support at home that makes it feasible. The professional classes paper over the shortfall by hiring a small army of parental surrogates, by accepting a reduced idea of the emotional needs of family life, and by lobbying for flextime and expanded day care. But no act of Congress will ever allow a parent to be in two places at once...
...power of the proxy was evident last week when the directors of UAL agreed to sell the parent company of United Airlines to its employees for $4.5 billion, or $201 a share. They had little choice. Coniston Partners of New York, which owns 11.8% of the company, had threatened a proxy campaign at the shareholders' meeting on April 26, which would have replaced the directors with another board more amenable to a buyout...