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...currently unchanged." If crazy doesn't get you bumped from the flight rotation, what does? Nowak, of course, is through as an astronaut. Just as important, she's through as an icon-and she was a very good one. A 43-year-old Naval Academy graduate and married mother of three, she managed the demographic hat trick of career, motherhood and military. No buzz-cut, fists-on-hips Al Shepard or Deke Slayton was better suited to his era than Nowak was to hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, She's Got Some Problems | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...sister had the mentality of a 9-month-old, although her body continued to mature. When the decision was made to place her in a facility, it was only because she was almost as tall as my mother and we were no longer able to lift her and provide her with the care she needed. If the options available to Ashley's parents had been available to us in the early 1980s, we would have done the same thing. She might still be alive today had we been able to care for her at home. Please do not condemn Ashley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...looking like Miss Patty on Gilmore Girls.Mid-calf length Skirts.This length skirt makes pretty much everyone look dumpy and fat. I really have nothing more to say. Wear heels or be 5’10” to even attempt this.Cigarette PantsRemember how last year everyone and their mother wanted a pair of skinny jeans so that they could feel bad about their thighs in public? Well, skinny jeans are out, but skinny pants are in, meaning that you cannot click your heels up with glee and smash your Tae Bo tape with your instep, as you were wont...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fashion Forecast: Stormy | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...were peeling beans early on a typically hot January morning in Santiago, Chile. I was sitting in the kitchen with Iris, my host mother during my stay in the capital for thesis research. “If you have time,” she told me, “I want you to see my friend. She was your age when she was arrested. She was young.” After a pause, she continued: “We were in the prison together. We sat on the floor, blindfolded. It was like a barn, you know, like where they...

Author: By Lauren R. Foote | Title: Torture Under Pinochet | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...husband was in his bed sleeping when a bullet came through the window and killed him," explains Juana Carvajal, El Alto resident and mother of four. More than a dozen people were killed in their homes by ricocheting bullets; one 10-year-old died and of the 400 wounded, several lost limbs. And the widespread outrage at Sanchez de Lozada's ordering the use of the military against unarmed protesters forced him to resign on October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia Calls Ex-President to Court | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

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