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Tempe and Mark Frank had the birds-and-the-bees conversation with their three boys, now ages 18 to 22, a long time ago. The Woodstock, Ga., couple never imagined that the birds and bees would be brought beneath their roof, because Steve and Marty kept their romantic buzzings to themselves. But Brett, their middle son, 20, whose mother calls him "the lover boy," changed that one morning when he was a high school senior and the Franks woke up to discover that his girlfriend had slept over. "We didn't have a game plan before. We'd never really...
...workers said that during his tenure at Columbia, Stone revitalized the public relations of the university. Stone arrived as the first vice president of a newly integrated public affairs division, which combined government, community and communications concerns under a single roof...
...choked up on adrenaline, daring anyone to knock the chip off his shoulder. Not good qualities for most jobs--unless you need to suit up every day against an adversary like fire. He made some spectacular rescues, including a courageous save as a lieutenant in 1991 on the roof of a midtown office building: Brown and two of his men held an inch-thick rope in their bare hands and, straining and skidding toward the parapet, lowered two fire fighters, one at a time, down into black, billowing smoke; each man grabbed a panicky victim from a windowsill perch...
...Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt worked together to demonstrate that the war overseas would be won only by preserving American liberty at home. The week after the raid, the Secret Service suggested a list of security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided...
...Robbason ran to the 20th floor roof of his office building, he remembered joking once to his coworkers at BuzzMetrics that if anyone tried to blow up the towers, their office would be crushed. Now he could clearly see the gaping hole where the plane had entered the building...