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Andie Rutland was browsing the newsstand at Barnes & Noble in Omaha, Neb., when a rare image caught her eye. It was Sally Field on the cover of More magazine, very attractive in a scoop-neck shirt but, at 53, also very unlike the twentysomething models on many of the other covers on the rack. "It just really struck me that the person on the cover was a mature person," she says. "It fit me and where I am at this point in my life...
...fine, something I could label vague and generally inoffensive advice. A wild resolution could be anything from “start trying to decide how I’ll put food on the table in a few short months” to “stop wasting $3.50 on newsstand copies of Glamour magazine and then reading the horoscope.” But when the mystically challenged likes of astrologist Fiona Russell decided to add the thing about getting “hitched,” as she so tritely put it, she crossed the line...
...post-Sept. 11 world has, for some people, meant a seizing of life's simple pleasures. "Business is better now," says London bartender Simon Ervin. "Our regulars are more regular." Rome newsstand dealer Germana Leo says she still does "everything I did before ... even more so. Go out to restaurants. Go to the movies. Getting on with life helps get over the pain...
...with the desire to be silly again, to take a break from the poignant reflection and introspection and feel comfortable doing what probably won’t add to my overall character but will make me smile. I look forward to the day when my casual perusal of the newsstand won’t always be dictated by the feverish need to know the latest in foreign policy or the threat of war. And perhaps, given recent developments, that day is further off than any of us had originally anticipated, I don’t know. I do know that...
...early-to-bed town of farmers was bug-eyed when the case broke, but few people in Champagne-Mouton knew Einhorn, a man who spoke little French and was seldom seen except to pick up his International Herald Tribune twice a week at the village newsstand. A pile of the papers ordered for him sits there now. At the nearby police station, the gendarme who knocked on Einhorn's door wonders if ever again he will see "FBI" on the same line as "Champagne-Mouton" in the papers. There hasn't been a single crime in the village since Einhorn...