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...decade is still in doubt, Turkmenistan's national assembly has cleared up the name for 2003: "The year of the Turkmen heroine Gurbansoltan edzhe, the mother of the first and eternal President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Turkmenbashi." The decision follows the renaming of April - now "Mother" - after the President's mom, who died when he was eight...
...living in the Netherlands. "So many people come up to me in the street and say they can identify with the sentiment expressed in the text," Raymzter says. Raymzter, whose real name is Raymon Renssen, 23, leads a pretty tame life for a rebel rapster. He lives with his mom, who is a single parent, two younger brothers and sister in a terraced house in one of the less salubrious neighborhoods of Almere, a new town some 30 km northeast of Amsterdam. His father, a Moroccan, abandoned the family when his son was just a toddler. In the evenings, Raymzter...
...starting in March, will follow a young man from Valparaiso, Ind., who six years ago, at age 14, wanted so badly to become a late-night talk-show host that he did. Right then. In his parents' living room. Essany got a slot on local-cable-access television, persuaded Mom to run the camera, put a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline behind his desk and over the next six years managed to book actual celebrities, including Jeff Foxworthy and Carrot Top. Well, all right, they're actual celebrities compared with any you could book into your living room...
...Very Hungry Caterpillar. Still, neither Falconer's nor Carle's works are being spun into anything nearly so ambitious as the Sunny Patch brand, Miss Spider's line of goods. Target, Callaway and Kirk think that doesn't matter. "Our core guest [i.e., customer] is a busy mom with young children. She's highly educated," says Sally Mueller, Target's director of marketing planning. "Many of our core guests have read David Kirk's books, so we thought it was a logical connection." In other words, why should TV have all the spoils? "We believe, naively or otherwise," says Callaway...
...spoken to her daughter Ginger, 38, for nearly 15 years, it was the chance to help her child out of a financial bind that brought them back together. They stopped talking when Ginger, at age 15, moved in with her father after her parents' divorce. "My mom was an alcoholic at the time, and we just never got along," Ginger says. But Ginger, at 29, found herself alone in Dallas, unemployed, nearly broke and almost suicidal. To her surprise, the one person from whom she wanted help was her mother. She asked Fran to lend her money. Fran, now sober...