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...believe it when her daughter Sharon, at the tender age of 4, seemed to be developing breasts. The tiny buds that appeared on the little girl's chest were gone within a couple of weeks, but three years later, they reappeared, and this time they grew--along with pubic hair and hair in Sharon's armpits. "I felt this was too early for her to be developing," recalls Carter. "Gosh, I was flat as a board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Before Their Time | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

Laura Stover took her daughter Karen to a specialist when the girl began growing pubic hair at age 5. The doctor put Karen through a battery of blood tests to rule out ovarian tumors (which can force glands to churn out puberty-triggering hormones). But there was no apparent medical problem, and by age 8, Karen had full pubic growth. "We didn't allow her to go to any slumber parties," says Stover. "Or to change bathing suits in front of other children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teens Before Their Time | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...decades, pediatric textbooks defined precocious puberty as a rare condition that occurs before age eight in girls and nine in boys. Then along came a study of 17,000 girls, published in 1997, that found 7% of white girls and 27% of African-American girls begin developing breasts or pubic hair by age seven. Intriguingly, the average age of menstruation still hovers around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Democrat. What do you expect?" he said. And after we tried to come up with a line about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Senator, afraid of seeming vulgar, wisely said, "I think we had better be careful about the choir." Someone was still feeling burned from bringing up the pubic hair on the Coke can during the Clarence Thomas hearings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utah: Where U Come First | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...like no other love doll in the world." This doll is no flotation device. A concoction of silicon and steal, the real doll is made precisely to the specifications of its creator. Every aspect of the doll can be altered--from height, weight and bust size to shoe size, pubic hair color and style...

Author: By T. W. Simpson, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Be My Lover, Doll | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

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