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...doctor" before she did "mother." As one of the Dionne girls - the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy, born 75 years ago on May 28 - Cecile spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie were...
...Highland Park, Ill. and Lowell House...
...Having grown faster than Europe's other big economies over the past decade, British GDP will shrink more this year, estimates the E.U. Brits have begun comparing themselves to Iceland, another north Atlantic island buffeted by financial turmoil. When squatters were discovered living in two $20 million Park Lane mansions, it was taken as a powerful reminder of the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s. "There will be lots more people like me in the coming months," said one of the squatters. Britain's opposition Conservative Party says things could get so bad that the country might have...
...sweep. This was Mumanachit’s first match of the year in which she did not record a 9-0 whitewash game. The Crimson’s younger players faced a tougher test but emerged victorious. After winning the first set, freshman No. 4 Emily Park dropped the second set, 7-9, but rallied to win the final two convincingly, 9-3, 9-1, to earn the 3-1 victory. Sophomore Alexandra Zindman dropped a tight third set, 8-10, but won a close-fought fourth set, 9-6, to hold on to win the match...
...lives under virtual house arrest, his every move observed, every visitor screened by a handful of guards, every conversation presumably monitored. The Communist Party would clearly like him to fade into oblivion, to live out the rest of his days caring for his goldfish and taking walks in the park. But Bao Tong has no intention of going quietly. (See pictures of China on the wild side...