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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andrew's tantrum swirled around the home of Jo and Bruce Powers in Naranja, Florida, a Miami suburb, they hid with their two children, Jo's sister Karen Brocato and several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Nature's Angriest Child | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Consider the case of Karen Grant of Goldsboro, North Carolina. She took her three sons, ages 13, 10 and 6, to the local library, and while she was helping the older boys find books, the six-year-old began browsing through a children's picture book called Daddy's Roommate, a book by Michael Willhoite written in the voice of a young boy whose parents divorce and whose father subsequently sets up housekeeping with his gay lover. The incident has created a storm and divided Goldsboro. The Grants call the book "antifamily" and claim among other things that it trivializes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead August 31, 1992 Vol. 140 No. 9 | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...United States was shut out for the firsttime ever in women's spring-board diving, where21-year-old Gao Min of China successfully defendedher gold medal. The best U.S. showing was JulieOvenhouse's fifth; teammate Karen LaFace of FortLauderdale, Fla., finished ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Takes Second Olympic Medal | 8/4/1992 | See Source »

Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead August 3, 1992 | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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