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...cross-hatched dynamism of contemporary barks, Mick Kubarkku, at nearly 80, has helped pioneer the new/old movement. As he says in the exhibition catalog, "When we were young we didn't do paintings. We just looked at rock paintings that our fathers did." "Crossing Country" charts this generational shift, which suggests not so much a radical departure as an extraordinary leap of faith...
...this shift in offensive focus wasn’t even planned. Harvard coach Tim Murphy will admit that, while he saw Carl Morris gamebreaker-type talent in Dawson, he was prepared to platoon the transfer running back with Ryan Tyler, hoping to squeeze enough yards out of the duo to keep the pressure off his potent passing attack...
...KIDS HAVE long suspected and grownups won't admit is true: Parents hate homework too. While all parents want their children to excel, many fret over how much time homework takes up--and what kids are missing out on as a result. For working parents, homework is the third shift, after the office and after cooking and cleanup chores. Is it worthwhile? Should first-graders really spend an hour a night on work sheets? How much should Mom help? Some answers from experts...
...there are new pressures given the long hours of working couples," says sociologist Arlie Hochschild, whose groundbreaking 1989 book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, found that through the mid-'80s, women still did the lion's share of cleaning. "I think the ideal of shared housework has caught...
...pack-a-day smoker, Beata Zvástová, a 43-year-old manager of a Bratislava post office, is no stranger to sudden coughing fits. But what she felt during her Sept. 23 shift was no smoker's cough. "I felt as if my air tube was about to stick together," she says. "I kept trying to clear my throat." When she saw her colleagues were also choking, she called the police. Last week, the Slovak Interior Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals...