| Get money in for time out
A GAP year is now an established rite of passage for many young adults. Indeed, so many students are taking time out between school and university, or university and work, to travel the world that an entire industry has grown up to cater for their needs. Increasingly, though, when faced with the prospect of working until their seventies, professionals in their thirties, forties and even fifties are opting to take time out to explore the globe. According to Standard Life Bank's Freestyle Happiness Index, some 600,000 working adults would like nothing better than to up sticks and have a gap year. .
Diverse Kalihi: pull together, remake image
From his small wooden porch overlooking Kalihi, James M. Rodrigues Sr. watches the sprawling community that grew up around him buzz through its daily routine: Traffic crawls along clogged thoroughfares, construction cranes appear and leave just as quickly. He remembers when his father used to do the same thing just sit quietly from the family's vantage point and watch Kalihi grow. "The changeover is so great," said Rodrigues, 75, whose family moved into Kalihi Valley in 1942. Back then, Rodrigues was 10 years old and Kalihi was a quiet, sparsely populated outpost of Honolulu, where immigrants found affordable homes and friendly neighbors. Over the past 65 years, rapid, largely unplanned development brought parks and schools, thriving businesses and industrial districts, and a diverse mix of families into Kalihi.
Outrage as Iran captives cash in
Captured sailor Faye Turney and her fellow hostages were accused of 'behaving like reality TV stars' after being given permission to cash in on their ordeal. The 15 sailors and Marines have been told they can sell their stories to the media by the Ministry of Defence, which bracketed the "exceptional circumstances" surrounding their 13-day ordeal with winners of the Victoria Cross. News that Mrs Turney alone is likely to make at least 100,000 was condemned by former Defence Ministers, ex-soldiers - and families who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scroll down for more... .
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes planning for baby #2 Tom Cruise and ...
Will Suri Cruise soon be a big sister? Rumor has it that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been shopping for baby goods for a boy. But with Katie preparing to start filming her comeback, the movie Mad Money with Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah, is she really ready to pack on the baby weight again? .
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