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...Travis Bradach-Nall's body when he was 17, and she was not amused. When he returned home one day with yet another design on his back, she initially refused to look at it. But she relented, and saw a heart stretching from shoulder to shoulder with the word Mom written inside. Her son explained it was because she was always on his back. In 2000, after graduating from high school, Bradach-Nall surprised his mother again when he joined the Marines. His unit entered Iraq in March. In May Travis gave up a chance to return...
Beth Wilson, a stay-at-home mom in Hobart, Ind., 35 miles southeast of Chicago, is still seething over last winter's bills from Northern Indiana Public Service Co., known as NIPSCO. In March 2002, Wilson paid the utility 33˘ a heating unit for the family's two-bedroom home. By March of this year, the price had shot up to 86˘, an increase of 161%. If the price of new cars had risen at the same pace, a midrange Ford Taurus would sell for $54,000 today. Says Wilson: "I never turn my heat up past 68. I didn...
Maybe Maguire is a control freak because he never had much control over things as a kid. His parents were 18 and 20 when they had him, and split up two years later. Dad was a cook; Mom was a secretary. Maguire grew up ping-ponging between them, moving from state to state. Often he was so nervous he threw up in the morning before school. Then everything changed. He was in junior high, and his mom wanted him to take a drama class. She bribed him with $100. After that, it was commercials--his first onscreen performance...
...will have to stay home. Bernie says that never happened. "She didn't tell me she was up for speeding," she says. "She may have been a tough cookie of a journalist, but she was afraid to tell her mother she was up in court." A thumbs-up from Mom goes a long way - "If I had disappointed her mother, I would've been devastated," Schumacher says - but Guerin's friends and family don't hold the monopoly on her memory. She is a source of national pride in Ireland, so the real test is whether or not the paying...
...just bought the book so I could get it signed for my mom,” said Divinity School student Sarah Knapp. She and friend Haemin Lee sat down in the shade of a potted tree after an hour of waiting in line. “She lives in Indiana, and the senator couldn’t get that...