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...indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences, and Baxter's unique voice so impressed editors at a major publishing house, Alfred A. Knopf, that next month it will bring out her exuberant memoirs, The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life. "I'm the seventh child, so I know I'm lucky," says Baxter. And what better proof than Knopf's literary stamp of approval? That in itself is an extraordinary tale--and a telling...
...m an avid reader of PEOPLE, but until a few weeks ago, I didn't know what Mavis Leno looked like. The wife of Jay Leno is an aggressive homebody, and for all the outside world knew of her, she might as well have been wrapped in a burka, the full-body shroud Afghan women are forced to wear. But she's emerged to give voice to those very women. "Silence," she says, "is killing" the women of Afghanistan, where the Taliban, an extreme faction of mujahedin, largely composed of Lord of the Flies-like boy soldiers, swept to power...
...years ago, she quit a job as a Milwaukee, Wis., fashion designer to join her fiance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now she sells china, pottery and the odd fur coat on eBay, grossing around $30,000 a month and catering to customers as far away as Japan. "I'm making triple my old salary, and I only have to work when I want to," says Sommers. That kind of flexibility was one of the key selling points for Rolando and Lisa Anzardo, longtime New Jersey antiques dealers, who closed their retail store, moved to the sun and surf of Florida...
From his apartment in Brookline, Mass., Richard M. Smith (no relation), president of Phar Lap Software, explored other viruses posted from the same e-mail account. In Stockholm, computer-science grad Fredrik Bjorck suggested that Melissa's code bore a strong resemblance to the work of a virus writer called VicodinES. When he heard that, Smith says, "I jumped all over it." He went to Vicodin's website and downloaded the virus tool kits he found there. Pulling files apart, he found names embedded in the source code. One of them appeared three times: David L. Smith...
...breakthrough. In most takeovers, city hall has delivered a fiscal and academic accountability that pulls budgets out of the red while improving, albeit modestly, overall student achievement. "Principals, teachers and administrators were there for life and couldn't be removed or forced to change," says Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. "We have shaken things up when necessary...