Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saul Kent wanted to bestow the ultimate gift upon his sickly 83-year-old mother: a new life. So when Dora Kent was near death last December, Saul, 48, took her to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Riverside. There, her head was cut off and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Called cryonics, the process is based on the hope that someday scientists will be able to attach the head to a new body...
...hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead of Yugoslavia's Mateja Svet. Only four other women alpine skiers in history have won two golds in the same Games...
Leonard Nimoy plans to shoot part of a Walt Disney film, "The Good Mother," in Cambridge beginning April 11. Based on the novel of the same title by city resident Sue Miller, the movie will star Diane Keaton and Jason Robards. William Blum, a spokesman for Nimoy, said it is due out next Thanksgiving...
...scene brought to mind heartbreaking falls of American Olympic track stars: Jim Ryun tumbling at Munich, Mary Decker's astonished spill in Los Angeles. Jansen's mother Gerry, who had seen the race on TV, spoke for the millions who watched at home and in Calgary, where a cheering crowd fell into shocked silence: "I think we were all just kind of numb." Jansen's spills brought down much of the U.S. hope for a men's speed-skating medal. The team had gone to Calgary seeing a chance to replay some of 1980, when Eric Heiden took all five...
...over, I talk with inheritors whose parents will not talk about money with them," says Consultant Levy. "It's treated like a subject in bad taste." When parents do talk, the instruction is likely to be minimal. Tracy Gary remembers one such childhood directive. "This is a quarter," her mother told her. "You have a lot of choices. You can donate it, save it, loan it to a friend...