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Wolf, 56, is able to branch out like this because--in a business in which producers tend to see themselves as the visionaries and see the network brass as the businesspeople--he runs L&O like a CEO. Unlike such micromanagers as The Practice's David E. Kelley or The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, he delegates heavily to his staff. And because his shows emphasize stories over character development, each actor is replaceable; L&O has run since 1990 without Friends-style salary increases or creative exhaustion. "Other shows eventually descend into a kind of soap opera," says Dragnet...
...worried because writers tend to have workplace problems for their entire lives. Literary muses often don’t make ends meet when they are writing, let alone when they’re circling their typewriters with dusters and Windex. They cannot afford any semblance of office space. The problem has reached such a fevered pitch that there is a market for helping writers work: Natalie Goldberg and Annie Lamott have made careers not by selling their own fiction, but by writing entire books for other writers on how to sit down and write; I own an inspirational writing book...
...their women and children. Victims are forced to march north for days with little food. Any resistance is met with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam and set to work. Boys are made to tend animals while women and girls are used as domestic workers and concubines. Slaves who fail to perform their tasks to their masters’ satisfaction are often beaten or mutilated, many having their fingers chopped off one at a time...
...healthy decisions about food and exercise," says Mary Young, a registered dietician and Executive Director of Nutrition for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. The NCBA, says Young, is concerned about the nutritional shortfalls of vegetarianism, which Young refers to as one of the "wacky eating behaviors" teenage girls tend to favor...
Opponents of bed sharing point to the safety hazards of adult beds, including the danger of falls or suffocation. Advocates say that the practice allows for easier breast feeding, makes for a stronger parent-child bond and means parents have to get up less often during the night to tend to a fussy baby. Some claim the practice even leads to more self-confident, independent children. "We found that in families who shared a bed, the children later rated themselves as more independent and loving than children who had slept alone," says Maria Goodavage, co-author of Good Nights...