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Peter and Lily are cool about sex, money and raising their nine-year-old son Charles. He can have a hamster only if, says his father, "you'll eat it when you get tired of it." Peter loves Lily but decides he cannot live at home. He rents a house 10 miles away so that "I won't have to feel bad around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of The Blue | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Governor, with his power of clemency, could spare him. "If it were just a question of law, there wouldn't be the anguish involved," said Roemer, lapsing into near biblical cadences even as he glanced at his watch to see if was time to pick up his nine-year-old son Dakota and take him to baseball practice. "The law having been writ, a human stands under the tree. The courts having ruled, I stand with him. I have to make a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life in His Hands; Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

America's most fashionable doll appeared on grocery shelves last year. Breakfast With Barbie offers a bowl of itty-bitty hearts, bows and stars in lollipop colors. Ghostbusters contains marshmallow specters, and Nintendo Cereal Systems boasts fruity-flavored video-game characters. Hot Wheels, for fans of Mattell's little toy cars, blends marshmallow vehicles with frosted oat "mag wheels." Batman comes in an ominous black box, but the little bats inside are gold. Not even a nine-year-old caped-crusader freak will eat black food. The market for children's cereals is toothsome. Almost one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Ah, How Sweet It Is! | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Before the nine-year-old daughter of Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Fla., died last year, following surgery for a heart defect, doctors made an unsettling discovery: Arlena Twigg was not their biological child. Last week genetic tests established that the Twiggs' real daughter is Kimberly Mays, who was born at Hardee Memorial hospital in Wauchula, Fla., at about the same time as Arlena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: She Still Calls Me Daddy | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...like to explore and stuff on the fifth floor and try to find the roof," says nine-year-old Antonia M. Nagy, daughter of Currier House master Gregory Nagy. And she says she also likes to roller skate down the halls of Currier...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: When Home Is A House: Children of Masters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

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