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...restarting season," captain Elizabeth Aranow said. "We really pulled together as a team at this match...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fencing Falls in H-Y-P Meet | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...exceeded 34,000 by the late 1980s. These were discount Names too, Lloyd's having lowered the net worth needed to become a Name to substantially below $1 million. The lower bar gave entry to investors such as Shirley Cook, a third-grade teacher from Texas, and Elizabeth Bencsics, the wife of an electrician in New Mexico, who lost big chunks of their life savings. "At school we were taught that there was nothing more honorable than Lloyd's of London," Bencsics says. "I was thrilled to be part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lloyd's Of London Falling Down | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...campaign to make turtles as popular as Mickey Mouse. Appropriately, his new, privately funded Chelonian Research Institute, for the study and preservation of turtles, is located in Oviedo, Fla., just a half-hour drive from Disney World. Pritchard shares observations with celebrity tortoise lovers such as Queen Elizabeth II, helps South American Indians raise chickens so they won't hunt turtles, and writes children's books in addition to academic papers. "Turtles have big, gentle eyes and a slight smile on the face," he says. "This is a good critter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETER PRITCHARD: Tickled About Turtles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Naipaul, knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990, is now considered a giant in postcolonial fiction, having won almost every major literary award except the Nobel Prize. Born in Trinidad to West Indian parents in 1932, "Vido," as he is called in the book, was able to secure a prestigious Trinidad government scholarship in 1948, which he used to fund four years of study at Oxford University. Family Letters documents Naipaul's life spanning a period from just before his departure for England, to the critical acclaim following the 1957 publication of Naipaul's first book, The Mystic Masseur...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Epistles of Empathy, England | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...sheis not the only one. Elizabeth iEmmyi Hancock i00, a former Miss Massachusetts, also committed herself to the modeling industry. A veteran of TV commercials, Emmy received even more hot offers after capturing her pageant title. Beginning to get her portfolio together, Ashanti A.W. Decker i02 is breaking into the world of stick-thin women, Diet Cokes and haute couture. Trying her hand at photo shoots and runway shows for the first time, Ashanti is learning what it takes to be like Naomi, Cindy and Giselle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fm dial | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

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