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...case: Ashley is a brain-damaged girl whose parents feared that as she got bigger, it would be much harder to care for her; so they set out to keep her small. Through high-dose estrogen treatment over the past two years, her growth plates were closed and her prospective height reduced by about 13 inches, to 4'5". "Ashley's smaller and lighter size," her parents write on their blog "makes it more possible to include her in the typical family life and activities that provide her with needed comfort, closeness, security and love: meal time, car trips, touch...
...originated in the centrist group that created much of Bill Clinton's agenda, the Democratic Leadership Council. Not this time. Many of the proposals for middle-class tax cuts from Edwards' first run won't be on his platform. Edwards says the country can't afford them and the bigger goals he wants to pursue. He says the problems in the U.S. are too pressing for the incremental solutions he proposed last time. So on the day he announced his presidential candidacy, Edwards boldly declared that reducing the deficit, a hallmark of the Clinton Administration, was less important...
...Iliad was boffo, thanks to a strong revenge story mixing love, war and some fabulous poetic effects. So of course he thought of a sequel, spinning off one of the characters, Ulysses, into his own traveling adventure. Homer called that one The Odyssey, and it was an even bigger smash. Then, deciding he had exhausted the saga, he stopped...
...some films are out-of-nowhere hits. Says Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "You take a movie based on a theme-park ride about pirates, and you had not very high expectations. After we had such an unexpected hit with the first Pirates movie, there was pressure to do something bigger and better, which we somehow did." Prudently, Bruckheimer shot the second and third Pirates films simultaneously, reducing the overall budget. Yet each sequel cost in the $200 million neighborhood, 50% more than the price of the original...
...future. The improbable and impossible wins, like those over Stanford and BC, make more probable the same results once big games roll around again. National exposure and impressive performances against top-25 opponents help smaller Division 1 programs land recruits who might have been snatched up by bigger programs. Ask junior guard Lindsay Hallion, who led all scorers with 18 in the win over BC. She grew up in Westwood, Mass., and sent letters to the BC point guard every week when she was a middle schooler. BC carries the pedigree in Boston, and the Eagles have the recruits...