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Featured Articles
Mothers Day — May 11
Recalling her own mother's wish for mothers everywhere to be honored for the service they render to their families and the community, Anna Jarvis began a quest a hundred years ago.
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Home Life |
A Web Contract For Personal Goals | | New Englanders are no strangers to the power of public shaming, as Hester Prynne's scarlet letter attests. So perhaps it was a matter of time before a couple of New Englanders harnessed the Internet as a kind of public stocks for those without the willpower to achieve personal goals. |
Greener Than We Think | | When it comes to doing their part for the environment, Americans may be "greener" than they think — with many participating in more than two "green" activities regularly. |
Child Safety Seat Laws Inadequate, Says AAA | | Thirty years after the enactment of the nation's first child safety seat law, a new survey shows parents strongly support child safety seats and child seat laws. Yet nearly 100 children under age 5 die every year in crashes they could have survived had they been using child safety seats, said AAA in calling for states to close gaps in their child passenger safety laws. |
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Technology |
WB Network Returns As A Web Site | | The WB brand, born as a broadcast network in 1995 and closed in 2006, will return as an online video Web site combining short original series with classic shows, the Warner Brothers Television Group announced last month. |
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Career Moves
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| Not-So-Personal Finance | Arielle Green, a publicist in Manhattan, knows what most of her friends earn,
whether it is $28,000 a year or $100,000. And she does not seem particularly shy
about disclosing her income ($30,000 a year, plus overtime).
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| Parental Perks At Work | Raising a family while working can be a challenge for most parents, but it seems many businesses are lending a helping hand.
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Downtime |
Next On His Docket: A Supreme Challenge | | Laurence Fishburne first read the one-man play ''Thurgood'' while flying
last year from New York to Boston, where he was being honored as the Harvard
Foundation's artist of the year. After checking into his hotel, he walked down a
hall lined with portraits of Harvard alumni and paused in front of one of them:
Charles Hamilton Houston, a Harvard Law graduate who was Thurgood Marshall's
mentor. ''I thought to myself, well, I really don't have a choice about whether
I should do this play or not,'' he said. |
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