Word: beach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McMillan's book How Stella Got Her Groove Back, now a movie, the lead character, 40, meets a 20-year-old student in Jamaica whom she eventually marries. And, why yes, Stella does have a son and two sisters. The simple (real life) nuptials took place on the beach in Maui, with the barefoot bride in spiky hair braids. Check upcoming novels for details on how the marriage works out. --Reported by David E. Thigpen...
...number of people you've met on each page. The only problem with the new students' rampant enthusiasm is that it goes completely unchecked. Unlike in the real world, where throwing together 1,600 hundred strangers might create a somewhat suspicious environment (as in a stadium or a public beach or a prison), at college there is no second-guessing...
...green as an extension of her office. "I have got lots of new customers as a result of playing golf," says Lois Rice, 59, an executive vice president of Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles. A survey this year by the Executive Women's Golf Association in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., found that its 13,000 members had an average salary of $78,325. Nearly 60% of respondents held upper-management positions with major corporations. Almost 30% owned their own business...
...host; Reel to Reel, a movie-trivia game show; and It's a Miracle, featuring true-life inspirational stories. "We want to be a safe haven for viewing: free of violence, free of overt sex and free of foul language," says Paxson, who runs his empire from West Palm Beach, Fla. Paxson insists, however, that he's not aiming for a new incarnation of the Christian Broadcasting Network. "We're not going to proselytize or evangelize in any way. Jesus gave only one sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. The rest of the time he told about his father...
...that reason, even a well-tracked storm like Hurricane Andrew could have caused death on a huge scale, just by zigging a few miles to the north at the last minute. Had it made landfall on Miami Beach, where a third of residents didn't evacuate, Andrew could have killed many more than the 15 people whose lives it claimed...