Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front of his computer, cruising the Internet. In the background a CD player blares misogynistic obscenities. In another room, the television features a teenage heroine contemplating violence against her classmates. The local sixplex is playing a film that spills more blood than a slaughterhouse hoses down in a month. And in most states, if you can't buy a gun with a few phone calls and a couple of hundred bucks, you haven't really tried...
Maryanne Culpepper of Fairfax, Va., a programming executive at National Geographic Television, is by no means a rigid mother. Her son Jonathan, 17, has seen the violent movie The Matrix four times in the month that it has been out. Yet she is cautious about the digital world, calling it "a culture that they just slip into." She says, "It's not so much the Internet or the games but which Internet site and which games...
...experimental diet drug being tested at nearby Baylor University, and Smith signed up. For two years, she and thousands of other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
Moreover, the actress seems to be leading as unglitzy a social life as a person can have when good friends include Natasha Richardson, Ewan McGregor (with whom she stars in the British film Rogue Trader, premiering in the U.S. on Cinemax next month) and Kate Moss. She's single and dating now and then, even though she finds American men somewhat inscrutable: "Men are wonderfully upfront here. But you go out, you have a lovely time, you're asked a lot of questions, and you don't know if the guy's ever going to call again." Following her nightly...
...about 7.08%--not that much more than the smaller "conforming" loan at 6.9%. Last October, though, jumbo borrowers had to pony up an average 7.22% when nonjumbo borrowers were paying only 6.76%, a punishing difference. On a $250,000 loan, that extra interest cost comes to $77.20 a month, or $27,792.13 over the life of the loan...