Betty DeGeneres, 82, is a gay rights campaigner and the mother of the world’s most famous lesbian, not necessarily in that order. Ellen DeGeneres has a TV audience of at least 4 million viewers per episode in the US alone and is in Australia to film segments for her show.
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Ellen’s mum’s message for politicans
Betty DeGeneres, 82, is a gay rights campaigner and the mother of the world’s most famous lesbian, not necessarily in that order.
Will There Be Any Hope For The Poor?
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.
Hounded in Europe, Roma in the U.S. Keep a Low Profile
This week hundreds of Roma in Italy watched as their long-established homes in Milan were bulldozed to the ground. The act of racism came just weeks after France evicted Roma from their camps and forced them to board flights bound for Romania and Bulgaria, where they experience seemingly inescapable poverty and hate
The Apple Of Your Ear
The iPhone started out the way a lot of cool things do: as something completely different. A few years ago, Steve Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent–particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area–on what are called tablet PCs: flat portable computers that work with a touch screen instead of a mouse and keyboard.
Letters: May 31, 2004
As your report “What Makes Teens Tick” aptly illustrated [May 10], science is catching up to what parents and teachers already know: teenagers’ brains are different from adults’. The ability to make adult judgments comes later, as different parts of the brain develop.
Are Gastrocrats Bad News for Fine-Dining Food Lovers?
There have been a lot of weird things for sale on Craigslist over the years. But a $3,000 dinner reservation?
Education: Campus in a Cruel Month
Harvard in the spring is usually a beguiling vision of academe as it ought to be.
McIlroy’s Masters: Why Golf is the Cruelest Mind Game
All sports are competitive, but they are competitive in very different ways.
10 Questions for Tim McGraw
He’s a country-music megastar whose tour with wife Faith Hill was one of 2006’s biggest moneymakers. He’s also a doting husband and dad who has vowed never to spend more than two nights away from Hill and their three young girls.