She's Having a Baby She's Having a Baby She's Having a Baby is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed and written by John Hughes. The film portrays a young newlywed couple, Kristy and Jake Briggs played by Elizabeth McGovern and Kevin Bacon, who try to cope with married life and their parents' expectations. This film looks at the lives of Jefferson "Jake" (Kevin Bacon) and Kristy Briggs (Elizabeth McGovern), from their wedding day until the birth of their first child, mostly through Jake's eyes, with his voiceover commentaries and several imaginary scenes. Jake asks his best friend, Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin) before the
On Being the Right Size would have to change its physical shape, but the weaker it would become. This link became known to others as "Haldane's principle", being referred to as such by urban planning theorist Jane Jacobs. Another planning theorist, Christopher Alexander, refers to this principle in his theory of "Independent Regions" in "A Pattern Language", citing Haldane: The conceptual metaphor to animal body complexity has been of use in energy economics and secession ideas. On Being the Right Size "On Being the Right Size" is a 1926 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential