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...daughter-in-law has multiple sclerosis and uses a Segway in the house. She had her car adapted for ease in getting the Segway into the back of her station wagon. She told me that it has made her life much more fulfilling. Now she can take the dog for a walk, go shopping, meet with her friends--in general, she's much more mobile. This is a miracle machine. JOE BLATNER Vancouver, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...thing, and never went in for the blue suits and little bowties,” says the previous board member of GM, Unocal, and Proctor & Gamble. Whether it was women at parties or a mother-in-law who was “genuinely disturbed” by a daughter-in-law with two kids and a job, “it’s one thing to look back and say ‘didn’t it all work great,’ but looking forward, there was all kinds of angst,” Whitman says...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working Whitman Breaks Ground | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...yearly Iron Man Contest, and after 5-ft. 4-in. Laura beat dozens of men to win the contest, the event was renamed the Iron Person Contest. "She has so much stamina, but at the same time she's very feminine," observes Jim's mother June of her daughter-in-law. "She is little but mighty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Family Goes To War | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...What lifts Boone from his paddock in northern New South Wales is the angelic figure of Marlene in her Manolo Blahniks. The daughter-in-law of Leibovitz, a Picasso-like modern master, she has come to value a work that has miraculously found its way into the hands of Boone's neighbor. But nothing is what it seems: Manhattan-accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

EXPECTING. PRINCESS KIKO, 39, daughter-in-law of Japanese Emperor Akihito; her third child, news of which has quieted a heated national debate over a succession law as the public awaits word of the baby's gender; in Tokyo. With no male heirs in sight--both Kiko and Crown Princess Masako have so far given birth only to girls--many Japanese have been clamoring to revise the law to allow an empress and subsequently her children to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne, an event Japan has not witnessed in more than two centuries and officially banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 20, 2006 | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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