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...stolen tickets written on her ticket stock. The airline later relented because Pisa had followed recommended security guidelines. But Georgette Bouland-Anthe, a travel agent in Libertyville, Ill., who lost 6,000 blank tickets to the ring and owes the airlines $300,000, was forced to close her seven-year-old Travel Incentives Inc. "The airlines want payment," says Bouland-Anthe. "I am trying to get my nerves back in order after being in this business 20 years and having to walk away from it with nothing...
Consider the current movement to have school-age children fingerprinted just in case the police-department coloring books fail to thwart abduction. Ever try to fingerprint a seven-year-old without having her ask why? (She might even ask a more troubling question: How likely is it that a fingerprint would help you locate an abducted child...
...much for truth. Much of the book's melodrama comes from Roberts' account of abuse by a father he describes as angry, violent and a killer. The late Marvin Roberts, a horse trainer in Salinas, Calif., beat Monty with a chain, so goes the account, when the seven-year-old boy began to question rough, traditional training methods. These beatings, writes Monty, went on weekly for several years. Worse: during World War II, when Marvin worked as a policeman, Monty saw his father disarm a knife-wielding black soldier who was trying to hold up the Golden Dragon...
...years as a program manager, to a classroom at Elizabeth High School in New Jersey, where he's now a math teacher. After getting a buyout package in 1991 that included a year's salary, a full pension worth one-third of his salary and a guarantee of continued corporate-paid medical benefits for himself and his wife Judith, Weinstein went to the Teaneck, N.J., campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University for a teaching certificate. With a background in math and science, a longtime interest in teaching and a desire to spend more time with his wife and seven-year-old...
Figure-skating, like other sports, is said to build poise and grace, but it is also said to build confidence. When Kelly O'Grady stops being a seven-year-old figure-skating phenomenon, let's hope she takes the confidence she learned on the ice to pursue her own dreams, and to figure out what she wants to do with the rest of her long, long life...