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...dates," she said. "If someone asked you out, they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time." On behalf of their compatriots, male journalists are fighting back in a touchingly macho display. "It might surprise you to know that Englishmen don't tend to find American 'gals' that tantalising," sniffed the Mirror. Spat the Times of London: "Only a certain sort of man would be attracted to a woman whose greatest qualities are her thinness and her ability to blub on cue." And the Daily Mail suggested that Paltrow is suffering from...
...project reflects the hard work of many TIME staff members, in particular Andrea Dorfman, who did much of the reporting and co-wrote the lead story; Marti Golon, who created the striking design; and Jay Colton, who organized the impressive photography. So if you tend to skip environmental specials, make an exception with this one. There's a hopeful message inside that's well worth your time...
Efforts like these tend to work only when there is constant on-the-ground monitoring, environmental groups say. Otherwise, funding is often diverted to other projects or siphoned off by corrupt officials. "The difference between success and failure in protecting wild areas is presence," says Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. "The ones that fail are where a project is set up and walked away from...
...everything green is rosy. To provide sunlight that reduces reliance on electrical lighting, environmentally conscious designers tend to favor open-plan workplaces over offices with doors that close. That can be good for nature, less good for quiet and privacy. And big suburban residential developers are not piling in yet. Reduced long-term energy costs, for instance, are not an important incentive to builders who plan to sell off the homes they build right away...
...most kids, the consequences of not identifying the illness can be severe, since the bipolar steamroller gets worse as children get older. Though they tend to be verbally skilled and are often creative, bipolars find school difficult because the background noise of the disorder makes it hard for them to master such executive functions as organizing, planning and thinking problems through. The most serious symptoms may appear when kids reach age 8, just when the academic challenge of grade school starts to be felt. "They're being asked to do things that they're very poor at," Papolos says...