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Cecilia Morton, in Santa Maria, Calif., has not one but two daughters who developed early. Clara, now 13, started sprouting breasts and pubic hair when she was 8 and began menstruating a year later, at summer camp. Says her mother: "It was scary and embarrassing because the girls in her cabin didn't have their periods yet." Then Clara's little sister Susan, a kindergartner, began developing at the same time. Although Susan's tests were normal, Morton put her on hormone treatments. "We already see how men look at Clara," she says. "If my younger one didn't have...
About 20 students attended the first event of the day, a discussion entitled "Abuse in Relationships: How Does This Relate to Me?" The discussion, led by Alvarez's mother, Dr. Ana Maria Ferrer of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, focused on identifying, addressing and preventing abuse in relationships...
...Maria Cantwell is not your typical Internet whiz kid. At 42, she's more like an Internet whiz-kid's high school principal. Sit down to interview her, and you get a moment of silence before she answers each question with a disarming smile. You'd never guess that Cantwell, Washington State's Democratic Senate candidate, is an executive on leave from RealNetworks, the Seattle - based Internet giant - and the first dotcom millionaire with a shot at winning major political office...
...MARIA PEKLI's husband Gabor Szabo wanted to give his wife a hug after she won Australia's first Olympic judo medal in 36 years, a bronze. But Szabo is also her coach: it's forbidden for a coach to set foot on the competition mat. He got a 24-hr. suspension. It would have been a year if he'd refused to write a letter of apology...
...forget how dangerous and lonely their work can be. Kennedy Cuomo's interviews with 50 activists, including seven Nobel laureates, tell the stories of these courageous souls in their own sometimes straightforward words. East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta remembers when the U.S. was a foe: "My own sister Maria was killed by a plane delivered to Indonesia two weeks before by the Carter Administration." Black-and-white portraits by the Pulitzer-prizewinning photographer Eddie Adams add power to the text. An exhibit of the photos will travel around the country later this year...