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...Helen Beasley says she did not set out to become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a nine-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I thought...
Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
...best and most beautiful things in the world," Helen Keller is reputed to have said, "cannot be seen or touched, but are felt..." She wasn't talking about the material, but as far as designers are concerned, she might have been. Humble old felt has been popping up in some unusual places, in clothes and furniture and even as table settings and vases...
...Helen (Holly) Maddux in 1972 at La Terrasse, the bistro where he held court but never picked up the tab. Maddux was described as a woman of such mesmerizing elegance, everything around her would fall away. "Michelle Pfeiffer has the same kind of fragile beauty," says Holly's sister Mary, 34. (Years later, the comparisons to his wife Annika would seem chilling - both she and Holly were described as delicate and ethereal. Both dancers, both seamstresses, both Earth Mothers...
...impressive as America's current women's tennis stars are, none is as dominant as HELEN NEWINGTON WILLS was in her day. When TIME put her on the cover in 1929--for the second time in three years--Wills was in the midst of winning four straight Wimbledon singles titles. She won 31 major championships...