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...greater stake in 10.6 million U.S. businesses. Organizations and websites have sprung up to serve the women behind these enterprises. Ladies Who Launch, an online, women's-only networking group, offers live workshops to its 25,000 members--40% of whom are moms. Authors Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano dispense advice and provide message boards on a website specifically directed at mompreneurs--a term they coined to describe moms running home businesses and, in the entrepreneurial spirit, have trademarked. Mompreneursonline.com attracts 7 million visitors a month, they...
...diagnosis as a death sentence," says one 33-year-old patient. "They just don't want to fight anymore." The chance of being admitted to an experimental drug program, he says, "gives me a little extra hope. Hope is something I don't want to lose." -Reported by Patricia Delaney / Washington, Joyce Leviton/Atlanta and Melissa Ludtke/Los Angeles [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
Brown's disavowals have not convinced everybody. In 1979 Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Soldier of Fortune was recruiting mercenaries. The probe turned up nothing illegal. Schroeder still criticizes the magazine for its "romanticization of war." Says she: "One country's mercenaries are another country's terrorists." One reason why the magazine has failed to ignite much opposition may be because few in Washington take it as seriously as Brown would like. Brown returns the compliment, saying the Central Intelligence Agency is manned by "hundreds of incompetents...
...every pound you gain over the 1959 Metropolitan Life tables, your death rate increases 2% over the next 26 years." Until the doctors can resolve their conflicting interpretations, many Americans will find it prudent to hold back on that second helping of pasta . --By Ellie McGrath. Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington and Barry Kalb/New York...
...More than a year later, Franck V.'s children were briefly placed in foster care, where one child spoke of sexual assault. At the end of 2001, a niece of another accused told police she had been raped in 1999. Police then began an intense investigation. In February 2002, Patricia confessed to investigators. As the arrests accelerated, those not yet arrested burned key evidence, including photographs of sexual assaults, says Lollic. A complex bureaucracy separates social assistance from law enforcement, so officials didn't follow each other's leads or grasp the enormity of the crimes. And social workers typically...