Its reporters' prejudices, allied to the modern preference in broadcast news for context and commentary (that is, opinion) over facts, yielded a generally pessimistic account of British and American actions before, during and after the war.
One piece of good news for modern moms: According to a recent Deloitte shopping survey, 40% of men today report being the primary grocery shopper for the family, compared to just 20% 10 years ago.
People who only watch local television news think that modern life is an endless series of child abductions, but the rest of us know better.
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Phillips joined CNN in 1999 and moved to HLN in 2012 to anchor Raising America with Kyra Phillips, a daily interactive, investigative program that focused on news impacting the modern American family.
By contrast, in modern America there have been a number of news stories of late highlighting the rise of the female breadwinner.
Michael Morpurgo, author of modern classics such as Private Peaceful, told BBC News he would not go into schools unless the rules were changed.
Dr Karch told BBC News Online at the time that he studied similar modern cases.
The good news, Ms. Linklater noted, is that modern theatergoing is still seen as a respectable proposition, as opposed to the Elizabethan age, when the free-for-all came with the ticket price.
The good news is that consumers want to be involved, and modern technology tools make this possible.
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This makes modern x86 chips large and power-hungry, which is bad news for users of portable computers.
Demand is particularly strong for networking equipment from companies like Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) that forms the backbone of modern digital communications systems.
NPR's Special Africa correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault's new book, New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance, chronicles modern day life and the changes happening on the continent.
Like a lot of modern academic historians, Kamen and Rawlings risk turning history into all nuance and no news.
The duo started buying high-end reproductions of famous modern pieces from manufacturers, including Herman Miller (nasdaq: MLHR - news - people ), the exclusive U.S. maker of furniture created by the Eameses, and storing them in a California warehouse so they could be shipped promptly.
When he famously gained a manufacturing foothold with the plastic flowers in the 1950s, he says, he was able to engineer critical molding machinery with an injection process made using a Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) bottle and a plastic straw, using something he saw in Modern Plastics as a guide.
In news from the media industry, whose fortunes are also tied to the consumer and broader economy, Modern Media of China said yesterday it would hook up with licensing partner Bloomberg to offer Businessweek via mobile phone and tablet PC (see related story here).
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Lead researcher Professor Gordon Smith, an expert in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Cambridge, told BBC News Online that the ability of a woman to become pregnant twice while still a teenager was probably a modern phenomenon.
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