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Miss Sweetie Poo, an “exceptionally cute” nine-year-old girl, cut short speakers who exceeded their time limit by strolling up to the lecturn and saying, “Please stop, I’m bored. Please stop, I’m bored. Please stop, I’m bored...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hilarity Wins at Ig Nobel Prize Show | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Miss Sweetie Poo was first introduced to the show in 1999 as a nine-year-old girl, and Abrahams made it a point to tell the audience that she was still nine years old...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hilarity Wins at Ig Nobel Prize Show | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Helen Beasley says she did not set out to become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a nine-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Baby Too Many | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

Certainly that is what many parents are starting to do. "I had one over-the-top birthday party for my child, and I'll never do it again," says Carrie Fisher, daughter of Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds and now the mother of nine-year-old Billie. "She got an elephant, and that's all I'll have to say. It will never happen again. I felt like the biggest ass." Fisher had her epiphany when she heard her daughter bragging to a friend, "My swimming pool is bigger than yours." That prompted some new rules. Among other things, Billie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Despite incessant requests for a Nintendo system by her twin nine-year-old boys, one mom says she compromises by renting a Nintendo console from Blockbuster a few times a year for $30 each time. "It costs me more to do this, and we could afford to buy it. But I don't want video games in my house all the time. This is our compromise," she says. "My boys are the type to sit there with it all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents and Children: Who's In Charge Here? | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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