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...tell you. She's on a quest to round out her 500-strong Beanie Baby collection. Among her tactics: spending evenings frantically refreshing eBay pages; lining up a source at Nordstrom's who hides new models for her; driving from her Los Angeles home to San Diego and Santa Barbara, Calif., to follow up on rumors of Beanie supply; attending Beanie conventions; and frequenting a tiny Barstow, Calif., shop where she finds rare Beanies. "It's a supplier. It's like drugs!" she laughs. With display cases in her living room, a Beanie MasterCard, magazine subscriptions, T shirts, mugs...
...based on fear of failure. We do it all the time. Sometimes those boundaries are broken down by ourselves, and sometimes they are broken down by a force greater than ourselves. In my case, that force took hold at the corner of De Longpre and Flores. --As told to Barbara Isenberg...
...find it especially helpful to share articles like yours with teachers, who are often skeptical about the condition and unaware of what can be done about it. My main concern is that dyslexia affects the ability to write as well as read. That aspect needs greater recognition, too. Barbara Frenzer Palatine...
...counts. They master enough English to memorize a list of significant authors and identify them by their book covers; they're also highly attuned to the tastes of the Indian reading public. Diwakar, a 19-year-old book-hawker, rattles off the names of his top sellers with ease: "Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sidney Sheldon, John Grisham" and, of course, "Harry Potter." They also know that pirated editions of The Joy of Sex are always in high demand, as are copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Says street-side seller Vinod Jain, 21, who always keeps Hitler's book in stock...
...part of Health and Human Services-which restricted the use of silicone implants in 1992 because of health concerns, may be poised to reverse course. On October 14 and 15, an FDA advisory panel will meet to consider recommending that silicone implant manufacturer Inamed Corp., located in Santa Barbara, California, be allowed to market its product. This week, opponents of any change in the FDA's stance are beginning a print and broadcast ad campaign depicting a woman's breast with an implant as a ticking time bomb...