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...delivery of a diagnosis of Down syndrome doesn’t need to be a gloomy affair,” said Skotko, who himself has a 24-year-old sister with the condition...
Ideal Significant Other: Pierce Brosnan in Thomas Crown Affair...
Allan Dizon grew up to the shrill squeals of dying pigs. His family home-a humble, jerrybuilt affair of concrete, wood and tin sheeting-stands in the township of Lorega, Cebu, close to a municipal slaughterhouse, but a distant remove from the white beaches and luxury resorts that many people associate with the Philippines' second city. Lorega is a tough area of backyard swineries and poverty, where the chief alleviators of misery are cockfighting, illegal gambling machines and drugs. For a brief time at least, Dizon was one of its more fortunate sons, working as a photojournalist at a local...
...British royal family should have let Charles propose to Camilla right at the outset. Broken hearts, broken families and unnecessary death could have been avoided. If it had not been for Charles' on-and-off affair with Camilla, he would not have been separated or divorced from Diana. Diana would not have taken up with Dodi Fayed, and there would have been no car accident. But wait, there would also not have been Diana, Queen of Hearts. It all boils down to providence. Augustine Kallon Hemmingen, Germany...
...OUSTED. HARRY C. STONECIPHER, 68, CEO of aerospace giant Boeing, brought back from retirement to restore the image of the company that was tainted by controversies over how it obtains defense contracts; after admitting to an extramarital affair with a female executive; in Chicago. Boeing called the affair improper conduct on the part of the married Stonecipher, a point on which the former CEO agreed. "I used poor judgment," he said...