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Twenty-five years ago, the new Fox Network began airing their first prime time sitcom, Married… with Children. The show, about a dysfunctional working-class family in Chicago, ran for eleven seasons until 1997. The series went into syndication beginning in 1991 and reruns can still be seen.
But just because the series went out of production in 1997 in the United States doesn’t mean it’s passé. The concept, characters, and even scripts from the original Fox series have been remade in countries all over the world.
This is what “Married With Children” looks like in other countries: Married… With Children Around the World
A great article on NPR talks about how women of today are fighting the fight for gender (and overall) equality…..and emphasizes the fact that women can never be both feminine and strong….unfortunate, but i think it’s true…
“It all comes back to the old problem of equality never quite being as close as it seems. Women may be moving into brave new roles, but they’re not necessarily doing so in community with each other or with a clearly articulated politics to support the changes they’re going through. The conservative backlash against what many in my generation assumed would always be our right — sexual freedom and reproductive choice — is daunting and dismaying. The past decade’s economic downturns have pushed many women into poverty even as others achieve new heights.”
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The Chinese have a long tradition of eating dogs. But increasingly, dogs are becoming pets. And animal rescue groups have taken to saving truckloads of dogs on the side of the road before they reach the butcher’s shop.
(via Headed For The Butcher, Chinese Dogs Are Rescued : NPR)
Photo: Frank Langfitt / NPR
npr:
This 14-Year-Old Girl Just Bought A House In Florida
When a 14-year old can afford to buy a home, does that mean home prices have hit bottom? Willow Tufano is a child of the housing collapse. Her real estate agent mom scrapes together a living in Florida by selling foreclosed properties. Willow found her own niche scavenging abandoned washes, dryers and furniture from her mother’s properties and selling them on Craigslist. In just six months, Willow saved enough money to buy a two-bedroom fixer upper for $12,000. -Chana Joffe-Walt (Photo by Chana Joffe-Walt/NPR)
In response to Earth’s nice new portrait…
Triple Jupiter Eclipse (NASA)
i love npr, but i love the planets even more…….prettttty…..
(via npr)
