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Rowling says the urge to be a writer came to her early during what she describes as a "dreamy" internal childhood. She began writing stories when she was six. She also read widely, whipping through Ian Fleming at age nine. Sometime later she discovered Jane Austen, whom Rowling calls "my favorite author ever." She was writing a novel for adults when, during a 1990 train ride, "Harry Potter strolled into my head fully formed." For the next five years Rowling worked on Book One and plotted out the whole series, which will consist of seven novels, one for each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

HANDS-ON ADULTS School-safety advocates cite the importance of having adults on hand. According to Ronald Stephens, director of the National School Safety Center, "The single most effective safety strategy is the physical presence of a responsible adult." At every class change, Grimsley principal Jane Teague, assistant principals and teachers are in the hallways, chatting casually with students as they pass by. At lunchtime, Teague and her staff roam the campus, saying hello and asking kids how they're doing. "To the extent that every child is known, then a school is safe," Teague says. "The key is having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: How to Keep The Peace | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...found problems with Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of Norway; lesser minds would have passed over that name with a yawn, but the past masters came up with an issue for each ideological wing--the right assailing her support of abortion, the left her country's less-than-Jane-Fonda-like appetite for whale products...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Gore Says It All | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...ARIZONA G.O.P. Governor Jane Dee Hull vetoes a bill that would have prevented cities and counties from enacting gun controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nationwide Backlash | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...survived by his sister, Jane Dear of Raleigh, N.C., and several nieces and nephews

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Professor Emeritus Dies at 81 | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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