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Baiul's technique on the ice is pure poetry, but I think her Americanization may have led her to skate on thin ice. Maybe a trip back to her native Ukraine would help her over the perilous hurdles of the skating world. PATRICIA PURDIE Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

More ominous yet is a transaction reported last December in the Houston Chronicle. Days after the Murray-O'Hairs disappeared, a real estate agent named Mark Sparrow, responding to a newspaper ad, paid a man he met at a bar $15,000 for a 1988 Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL. The car turned out to be Jon Murray's, but the man, who identified himself as Murray, turned out to be an impostor. Sparrow told TIME that after the transaction, the bogus Jon got into a car driven by a couple that fits the general description of the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Even more fundamental, says Dr. Bruce Perry of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, is the role parents play in setting up the neural circuitry that helps children regulate their responses to stress. Children who are physically abused early in life, he observes, develop brains that are exquisitely tuned to danger. At the slightest threat, their hearts race, their stress hormones surge and their brains anxiously track the nonverbal cues that might signal the next attack. Because the brain develops in sequence, with more primitive structures stabilizing their connections first, early abuse is particularly damaging. Says Perry: "Experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FERTILE MINDS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

Reiner is one of dozens of celebrities who have joined Hollywood's latest children's crusade. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Henry Winkler have all donated their names, their time and even their money to various kids' causes. Not only did Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw co-found the Children's Action Network, which makes educational films and sponsors immunization campaigns, but Spielberg also chairs the Starbright Foundation, an innovative charity group that deploys entertainment technologies to help ease the suffering of sick children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD GOES GAGA | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...Houston (fourth largest U.S. city) 1,650,000....Nebraska (37th largest U.S. state) 1,700,000....Graduate students in U.S. universities 1,500,000....Active U.S. military personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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