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...change almost immediately because the story keeps on developing. Last Wednesday Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 435 pages; $19.95) finally went on sale in the U.S., exactly two months after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...said the Desirs asked to be able to remain in their apartment until Wednesday, when they were set to obtain new subsidy certificates that might have allowed them to find a new apartment in time...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Group Protests Eviction of Family | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...said the Desirs had asked to be allowed to remain in their apartment until Wednesday, when they were set to obtain new subsidy certificates that might have allowed them to find a new apartment in time...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenants Group Protests Eviction of Family | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...CONNECTICUT A new law allows police to obtain a warrant to confiscate the guns of someone who might injure himself or others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nationwide Backlash | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

WHAT'S IN A NAME Two states are making it easier for adults to learn the identity of their biological parents. An Oregon judge just upheld a law that gives adoptees age 21 and older the right to obtain birth certificates listing their birth parents. In Illinois, the Governor is expected to sign a bill stipulating that when a surrogate mother carries another couple's embryo, the birth certificate will not list the surrogate but only the biological parents whose sperm and egg formed the embryo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Family: Aug. 2, 1999 | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

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