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...novel, but in The Shelters of Stone (Crown; 753 pages) little has changed. Auel's heroine, the plucky orphan Ayla, is still making her way in the spear-throwing, wolf-taming, sexually liberated Cro-Magnon era. Shelters is Auel's Paleolithic answer to Meet the Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts as flint knapping. It's strangely absorbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romancing The Stone Age | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...disclosed in the book "The Spy Next Door," co-authored by this reporter and former TIME correspondent Ann Blackman: if FBI background investigators had looked at a widely available commercial database that lists vehicle registrations, they would have discovered that in August 1991, Hanssen bought a Mercedes for his paramour, stripper Priscilla Galey, and registered it in her name but at his home address. In fact, the FBI didn't find out about Hanssen's extramarital - and pricey - relationship with Galey until his arrest in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Post-Hanssen FBI Circles the Wagons | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Oct. 29, 2001 | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...most recent victim of this summer’s new trend of celebrity freak-outs is everyone’s favorite scantily clad diva of age, Mariah Carey. After a bizarre strip show on TRL and numerous accounts of getting silenced by her publicist, the rumored paramour of Eminem left the ramblings of a crazy on her fan site before checking into a rehab center. Her publicist has since assured fans that she was merely suffering from “extreme exhaustion” and those bandages were simply the result of “accidentally” cutting herself...

Author: By Thalia S. Field and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: SEEN + HEARD | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...ironic, then, that according to friends, Levy had had two or three affairs with married men before she ever met Gary Condit. Each relationship, her friends say, would culminate in Levy demanding a "real" life with her paramour - who would inevitably balk and push her away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Chandra Levy | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

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