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...seven children of farmer Alimany Kargbo, who moved last year to Samuel Town village, about 20 miles southeast of Freetown, because of fighting in his home area. The family lives in a shack in the garden of an abandoned house. Last Jan. 13, Issatu was staying with her aunt on the edge of Freetown, waiting to go for a medical checkup, when rebels overran her neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...residents--they can't watch him every minute. It took the new doctors forever, in my view, to diagnose an underactive thyroid, which caused some of his confusion. He is in what doctors tell me is the early stages of Alzheimer's. Yet both his father and his aunt lived to 96. Will he have another 12 years of living in this netherworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Care Of Our Aging Parents | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...When CBS's Steve Kroft tried to pin Clinton on specifics, he demurred, saying that the American people "got" what he meant. Bush is basically winking at us too when he says he was "young and irresponsible." We're just supposed to get it and move on. When your Aunt Edna says her stomach's been acting up, you're not supposed to shout a detailed follow-up question about her colon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Lying...Low | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...While my aunt's farm provided a lovely backdrop for our family's reunion, many planners suggest that sticky problems over "ownership" of the reunion can be averted if you choose a site on neutral ground--an attractive location equally convenient to most of the clan. As many relatives as possible should be enlisted in putting on the show, whether to cook or deliver a toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reunion Rules | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...course it did, says Anna Jones, Cary's aunt and Delbert's sister. Delbert and Kay were after nothing more than a small-town stake in a Central Valley farm community, Delbert punching a clock as a mechanic, Kay grabbing whatever service jobs she could find. It wasn't easy or grand, but it was a life, and in an instant, it was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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