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...work at my job but because I was considered old. I had to grin at the man who made the decision to get rid of me. I thought at the time, "You are going to be paying me while I play." And so he has, and his children and grandchildren also will be doing so because I expect to be hanging in there 18 more years. ELLEN M. GREER Kissimmee...
...front row of the photo, was sentenced to three years probation for a ham-fisted department-store theft. Most ignominious of all, BILLIE JEAN MATAY (inset) tried to sue Disney over a theft she and her family endured in a Disneyland parking lot. Matay also claimed that her grandchildren suffered emotional trauma when, while being interviewed backstage by security guards, they witnessed Disney characters removing the heads of their costumes. The judge resisted the temptation to call the case Goofy but declared it a "nonsuit...
...Downs, the secret finally came out when she gave her 19 children and grandchildren shoe boxes stuffed with nearly identical collections of telescam trash. "We considered taking her checkbook away," says daughter Penelope Clute, a prosecuting attorney in New York State. "Fortunately, we didn't do that. It wasn't her. It could happen to anyone. [The scammers] are criminals, and they have the psychology down pat." Even after her secret was out, Downs could not give up hope of recouping some losses. A few weeks later, she called her children to report, with great relief, that at long last...
...humor and go around shouting Hallelujah! at every rock Sojourner stumbled on. In the end, in the spirit of science, we want those rocks to become as familiar and even banal to us as the ones we run into with our lawn mowers. If all goes well, our grandchildren will encounter the floodplains of Mars in a third-grade geography lesson, and maybe even find them a little dull. But cuteness short-circuits the whole process of learning and discovery. When we turn the Martian terrain into a comic strip, when we reduce a tragic hero to an action figure...
...Louis' Kingshighway Baptist Church could pass for a slow day at a retirement-home chapel. The dwindling flock is a sea of white hair and bald heads. And the service, which kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway's building for the past...