Word: quiteness
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...Turner herself. Oddly enough, the most engaging part of the opening night performance occured when the sound went out in the first act. When her microphone quit working, Turner did not bat an eyelash. Instead she rolled her eyes and drawled at the audience "Well daaaaaahling, shall we continue?" The ensuing feedback was drowned out by the applause of the enamored audience, and she finished the act without amplification...
...never occurred to Laurie Tennant that she would quit her job when she had kids. "Growing up, my friends dreamed of their weddings or of the families they would have," Tennant, 37, says. "I dreamed about my career." She loved her job as a director of human resources for the Northern California branch of a Big Six consulting company and went right back to work after her daughter Hannah was born in 1993. "I felt no pull from home when I was at work and no pull from work when I was at home. I felt perfectly balanced." Then...
...time and working from home. "I was actually a bit more productive at home because there weren't meetings to go to or people stopping by to talk," says Hollfelder, whose mother helped out with child care. Then last June Hollfelder gave birth to twins Jeena and Tessa and quit working, at least until the twins are older...
...found that staff meetings were invariably scheduled on her days off. She switched jobs and went back to working full time--60 hours a week--until her second child was born, when she again tried cutting back. This time the only part-time thing was her salary. When she quit six months later, two full-timers were hired to replace...
CRYING FOR A SMOKE New moms are often frustrated by the colicky cries of newborns, but according to one study there's something they can do about it: quit smoking. Researchers at the Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research interviewed parents of 3,000 babies up to six months old and found that colic was twice as likely in infants whose mothers smoked 15 to 30 cigarettes a day, either during or after pregnancy. No data yet on Dad's smoking, but it's a safe bet he should put out the butts...