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...University, compared two groups of women born in 1896. Their findings were stunning: Women who lived to 100 were four times more likely have had children while in their forties than were those who died at 73. "The ability to have children in the fifth decade may be a marker for slow aging and subsequent ability to achieve extreme longevity," the study concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: Do Middle-Age Moms Live Longer? | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...been tattooed in other ways as well. As we moved a wooden futon from the first floor to the second, we noticed the words "STEVE IS A HOMO" carved into its side. Someone had been a little thoughtless with the dry-erase board in the kitchen too--the marker sitting next to it was a permanent one, so a few names, phone numbers and scribbles, including a half scratched-out face, had been indelibly inscribed. On one of the mattresses upstairs, we even found a small and strategically placed bloodstain. We could only wonder...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Derrick Was Here | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

Another possibility we considered was scrawling the words "DERRICK IS A HOMO" on the dry-erase board in permanent marker. But that would be too blatant. Instead, we thought that we should write it in small letters on the side of one of the bedroom doors, where he would only find it several months later--after prolonged hangovers which would prevent him from ever suspecting anyone but Craig could have wrote it. And our most sophisticated plan involved leaving the house absolutely spotless but throwing all of the beds into the backyard. The scene unfolds...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Derrick Was Here | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...lately the most telling shots in this guerrilla war have been called by the White House itself. The President's defense team operates with a bunker mentality, scrawling messages in erasable marker to avoid the net of subpoenas. At 8:45 every morning, the "senior command"--a dozen lawyers, political aides and spokesmen--meet in the office of deputy chief of staff John Podesta to project where the Republicans are heading and how they can be headed off. They have managed this with the collaboration of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle while still providing most of the documents Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TROUBLES FOR THOMPSON'S SHOW | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...office prepared a large dry marker board with a message of thanks, punctuated at key intervals by candy bars which added a human touch to the message...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: FUNDS WITHOUT ALUMS | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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